Drama & Voice Coaching
English Language & Accent Tuition
with Joanna Hempel
Voice Coaching & Presentaion Skills
Contact:
Joanna Hempel
9518 4615
0433 896 420
joanna@atticstudio.com
People come from all parts of Sydney for drama & voice coaching, and language & accent tuition at Joanna Hempel's Attic Studio. Sessions are usually individual and proceed at the person's own pace. Joanna opened the Attic Studio in Glebe in Sydney's Inner West in 2001 after many years as director and successful playwright for the Armidale School of Youth Drama (ASYD).
| Actors and students of drama come to the Attic Studio to take performance skills to higher levels. |  |
| Media and Professional people
come to improve voice confidence and presentation skills.
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| Students of English language and accent correction
receive private lessons to expand their employment prospects, and
enrich their social and cultural lives by gaining fluency in English. |
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'She is excellent' -
Yr 12 student, Newtown High School
of the Performing Arts
'After 9 months' voice coaching
with Joanna I have scored a Media job
in London' - Singaporean
student with MA in Media from Syd Univ
'In 2 years Joanna has taught me to converse in English;
I am now learning to discuss' -
72 year-old retired doctor from Poland
Joanna Hempel has shared her techniques as a drama and performance specialist with high school students of drama and English, with people in the medical profession, with teachers of drama and English in colleges, schools and at conferences inter-state & overseas.
A graduate in Psychology and English from the University of Sydney, Joanna later trained in Theatre, gaining an M.Litt at the University of New England, Armidale. With a Polish background, she combines multilingual skills with her coaching of Drama, English Language and accent coaching. For the last four years she has been director of Soirees Litteraires with its monthly talks on European and Australian culture at the NSW Writers' Centre in Rozelle.
For many years Joanna was Director of the Armidale School of Youth Drama, with six of her plays for teenagers published and today studied and performed in schools in Australia, Canada and the USA. She is now writing a novel based on her family's experiences from World War I to its arrival in Australia from Europe in 1950.
‘Her ideas in gesture
and communication are inspirational.
Her love of Theatre inspires’ -
Drama teacher, Star of the Sea, Manly
‘Her lead-up
activities are exciting and constructive, the final product fabulous’
- English teacher, Sydney Grammar
Junior School, St Ives