Linda Nicholls-Gidley

Linda graduated from the NIDA voice course in 1998, she has since taught voice, accents and dialects at most of the acting schools in Sydney - ACA and NIDA among them. She was resident voice lecturer at the University of Wollongong for 6 years, during which time she directed several student productions and produced 3 plays, 2 of which she also acted in. She has just returned from a 3 and a half year stint in Melbourne as resident voice consultant for Fairfax Digital’s “The Age online”. Whilst in Melbourne she also taught voice at the National Theatre Drama School and continued to teach privately through her own company Voco Vox which she established in 1999.  In 2009 Linda’s paper on the use of the RP accent on the Australian Stage was published in the US Journal  The Voice and Speech Review.