Claudette
Williams

Areas of Expertise
- Accent
- Dialect
- Voice
I trained as an actor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and have worked extensively within theatre, radio, film and television as an actor and voice/dialect coach. I have been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and whilst there directed a devised a theatre piece which received an Arts Council Bursary; the production was performed at the Bloomsbury Theatre. As an actress I have worked with James Baldwin, Adrian Noble, Roger Mitchell, Katie Mitchell and Phyllida Lloyd. On completion of my postgraduate study in Voice at Central I joined the staff in 1998, having taught at the Mountview Academy of Theatre and Arts, Rose Bruford and at Arts Educational Schools, London. I am now Senior Lecturer in Voice, Speech and Text, working on the BA (Hons) Acting course. My teaching portfolio has now expanded to include directing and I now direct the first year Shakespeare project, as well as assisting on the final year agent showcase. I have led workshops at the Moscow Arts Theatre, Russia; University of Cambridge; The University of Oregon theatre programme in London; and Globe Education.
Featured Credits
- Queenie Series 1
- Three Little Birds
- The Long Shadow
- The Long Song
- Yardie
- Jonah
- I Am Slave
- Takeaway-Liverpool Everyman
- Secret Life of BeesThe Almeida
- Trouble in ButetownDonmar
- Caucasian Chalk CircleRose Theatre
- To The Streets - Birmingham Hippodrome
- Get Up, Stand UpLyric Theatre
- King Hedley 11 Cast August Wilson Stratford East
- The ConvertYoung Vic
- Five Guys Named Moe Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- HamletBlack Theatre Live
- Kingston 14 - Stratford East
- Josephine and IBush Theatre
- FencesDuchess Theatre