Woman’s Voice

Patsy Rodenburg OBE is a world expert on teaching voice, speech and presentation skills to individuals and companies across corporate and creative industries, as well as working with actors in theatre, film and television. Currently, she is Professor of Text and Poetry at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, UK, after serving as Head of Voice from 1981 until 2016. Over the past 40 years, she has been pioneering the only existing MA in Training Actors (Voice) and has sat on the board of directors for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2020, she established The Patsy Rodenburg Academy, which provides a safe and creative space for teachers, leaders, actors and all others to explore storytelling, while developing leadership, theatre and voice skills.She has coached some of the world’s leading business figures, including CEOs and board-level executives at leading global institutions such as the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, The Royal British Legion, ASOS, Women Ahead, and Women in the Law UK, as well as Supreme Court judges and leading politicians.

• PrologueChapter 1 – The BeginningsChapter 2 – CagesChapter 3 – Brilliant WomenChapter 4 – Whole Presence, Whole VoiceChapter 5 – The Unquestionably Equal Woman Chapter 6 – Equal?Chapter 7 – Mother Margaret and Nanna WinifredChapter 8 – WinnieChapter 9 – My FatherChapter 10 – EducationChapter 11 – VocationChapter 12 – Voice and Rhetoric Chapter 13 – The Fading Memory of Women’s PowerChapter 14 – JohnChapter 15 – ScarlsChapter 16 – Focusing on VoiceChapter 17 – HandmaidensChapter 18 – Breaking Free – Going Deeper – Demanding MoreChapter 19 – 2006: Moving On – The Revolution of Thriving, not just SurvivingChapter 20 – Facing the Inevitable Chapter 21 – Where is your Voice?Chapter 22 – Masks of SurvivalChapter 23 – Form and Content EpilogueIndex