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FLLOYD is an Australian actor, singer, writer, director, and voice coach who has trained and worked in Australia, UK, USA, Nigeria, New Zealand and Russia. As well as performing in cabaret and satirical revues, she toured folk clubs in England and Scotland, helped to run the Singers’ Club and the Croydon Come All Ye in London at the height of the folk revival, and the Ceilidh Grill in Tiree, Scotland (she was also the chef).


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While based in Scotland, she raised two sons, ran drama workshops for the Port Glasgow Association of Tenants’ Groups, performed street theatre, cabaret and fringe theatre, was lead vocalist with The Black Diamonds Havana Band (trad jazz) and Chorde en Bleu (modern jazz). After three years as deputy wardrobe mistress for the King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Flloyd returned to her performing career, touring Scotland with Annexe Theatre, Shared Boat, Cahoots and several one-woman plays under the auspices of the Scottish Arts Council. She established Performance Exchange, coordinating workshops and inter-disciplinary skills training for theatre practitioners in Scotland, and was founding Artistic Director of Golden Age Theatre (Glasgow), directing and performing in classic and contemporary plays, touring to festivals, theatres, schools and community halls (with workshops) around Scotland. Flloyd was invited o join the collaborative ensemble VoiceTheatre NY during their residency at the Columbia (Maryland, USA) Festival 1992, before visiting Russia to train with the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg.
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Since returning to Australia in 1997, Flloyd has directed opera and theatre productions (professional, student and youth theatre), including Madame Butterfly for the 4MBS Festival of Fine Music, and A Life in the Theatre for Trocadero Productions. She regularly performs with independent theatre and film companies, the most recent being the role of Elizabeth Boleyn in Crossbow Theatre’s production of Anne of the Thousand Days. Her ensemble company Off The Planet has performed mask and physical street theatre in national parks, banqueting halls and on street corners. Her musical play Blame it on Your Mother was first performed in Scotland by The Wicked Ladies, then by The Girls at the Empire Church Theatre, Toowoomba, and received creative development as part of the Metro Art Creative Arts Festival 2007, under the mentorship of Therese Collie. Her latest play, A Modern Invocation (previously “The Fall of June Bloom”), received creative development at the Magdalena Brisbane Easter Gathering 2008, and was performed at the ADSA conference in Dunedin, NZ in July 2008, and at Performing the World in New York in October 2008. the production is now available to tour, and will be presented at Metro Arts, Brisbane in 2009.

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“I enjoy sharing my experience with student and professional actors, professional men and women, community groups and youth theatres. I also perform with independent theatre and film companies, here and abroad.
“I have been in private practice for twenty-three years, as well as teaching at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Coatbridge College, Langside College, Queensland University of Technology, Australian Catholic University, Rutgers University and the University of Otago.

“My approach to actor training has been influenced by some of the world’s foremost voice and theatre practitioners, including Valerii Galendiev of The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg (Russia), Anna Petrova of the Moscow Art Theatre School (Russia), Shauna Kanter (USA), Krszysztov Miklasewski (Poland), Frankie Armstrong, John Wright (England), Harriet Buchan (Scotland), Marcia McCallum (Australia), Ira Seidenstein (USA/Australia) and Catherine Fitzmaurice (USA)

I am deeply committed to encouraging everyone to explore their potential, in all walks of life.
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