ABOUT HANNAH
“In the ten years I have worked under Hannah’s guidance, she has been nothing but an absolute angel. She has done so much for me and for my career. Hannah was my back bone throughout the whole audition process for both GSA and Back To The Future and everything in between and I couldn’t have done any of it without her. I rave about Hannah to everyone I know.”
Maddie Grace Jepson
Lorraine Baines - Back To The Future (West End)
Trained in musical theatre at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, Hannah is a highly experienced freelance teacher and performer with decades of teaching experience. Hannah’s lessons are detailed, down to earth and adapted to every individuals needs. Hannah teaches Online and in Bristol, London and North Somerset. She is highly skilled in working with students of all ages and abilities and can fix vocal issues quickly and reliably through a thorough understanding of the voice.
In her regular teaching practice she specialises in working with professional performers both in Musical Theatre and beyond, alongside those applying for vocational training, skilled singers looking to improve technique or build on their rep, young performers looking to take their singing more seriously, and even total beginners.
As a vocal coach, Hannah works with a large and varied roster of performers, preparing clients for performances, professional contracts, auditions, self-tapes and voice reels. Her students work extensively and consistently across the West End, the wider UK, on international productions and tours, as well as in television and film. At any given time, Hannah has students performing in almost every West End theatre, from leading roles in Les Misérables to those incredible Super Swings in SIX , her students can be seen everywhere. Students of Hannah’s have recently been seen in Les Miserables (West End), Operation Mincemeat (West End), Moulin Rouge (West End), Hamilton (West End & UK Tour), Cabaret: At The Kit Kat Klub (West End), Hadestown (West End), Legally Blonde (UK Tour), Prince of Egypt (West End), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End), Six (West End), Back To The Future (West End), Hairspray (West End & RCCL), Heathers (West End & UK Tour), The Royal Variety Show, Shrek (UK Tour), A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve), Bat Out Of Hell (UK Tour), Mrs. Doubtfire (West End), Tina: The Musical (West End & UK Tour), Grease (West End, RCCL, International Tour & UK Tour), Sister Act (West End), Matilda (West End & RSC), Starlight Express (West End & Bochum), Britain’s Got Talent, Just For One Day (West End), Wicked (Universal Pictures), Saving Mozart (The Other Palace), Evita (Leicester Curve), Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (West End), The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 (Menier Chocolate Factory), Mamma Mia (West End, RCCL & UK Tour), An Officer & A Gentleman (UK Tour) Aladdin (UK Tour), The Last Five Years (UK Tour), Fiddler On The Roof (UK Tour), BFG (Birmingham Rep), The Band’s Visit (West End), School Of Rock (Australia/Asia), Beautiful (UK Tour), Rent (Leicester Curve), Chicago (West End), Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (West End), Who Do Ya Love (UK Premier), Clueless (West End), Coming To England (UK Tour), Mamma Mia: The Party (London), Gypsy (West End), The Mousetrap (West End), The Tiger Who Came To Tea (West End), Young Frankenstein (West End) & A Little Life (West End) alongside numerous contracts with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, English Theatre Frankfurt, NYMT, Disney, BBC, Netflix, Edinburgh Fringe and all major cruise liners - to name just a few!
Hannah is also particularly experienced and successful in coaching students who are applying for further vocational training in musical theatre & drama, and has, over the course of her career, had students receive over a thousand offers at some of the worlds top training institutions including GSA, Mountview, Arts Ed, Bird, Laine, Performers, Urdang, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Royal Academy of Music, Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama, Royal Scottish, London School of Musical Theatre, RADA, PPA, LAMDA, LIPA, Institute of The Arts Barcelona, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, The New York Film Academy, London College of Music and Italia Conti. Hannah guides students through the entire process including choosing and honing repertoire, UCAS/CUCAS, audition etiquette, funding options, personal statements, monologue selection, interview practice and even the dreaded “what do I wear?”
Hannah also regularly runs workshops in a variety of specialist areas including Belting Masterclasses, Acting Through Song, Pop for Musical Theatre Performers, Drama School Audition Preparation, Vocal Wellbeing and Self Taping and Audition Technique. Hannah regularly runs workshops Online, In Central London and London’s West End, alongside Bristol and the South West. She also runs an annual summer school for elite young performers 11 - 18. Hannah is also available to hire for Guest Teaching. Please contact Hannah directly for bespoke workshops, pricing and availability.
Alongside her dedicated work with adult professionals, Hannah has decades of experience in working with young voices, particularly children and teenagers wanting to take their singing more seriously or with their eyes set on a future career in performing. She also teaches a cohort of young performers and child actors already working within the industry and maintains relationships with a number of local and national talent agencies. She is experienced in
preparing students for their singing, acting & music board exams, most notably LCM, Trinity & LAMDA - boasting a 100% pass rate with students over all grades, ranging from entry level through to diploma exams, with the large majority receiving a distinction.
Whilst Hannah now primarily works with professional performers, she is also experienced in working with adult singers of all ages and abilities who want to sing for confidence, joy or as a hobby, including total beginners. She is enthusiastic, well equipped and skilled at getting beginners or less confident singers gaining real pride in their sound, and honing the technique and musicality of even the most advanced musicians.
Hannah’s lessons are relaxed and positive, and allow students to tackle their vocal insecurities and weak spots in an encouraging environment, building confidence alongside technical ability, and improving technique through varied repertoire and an understanding of vocal structures and mechanisms. Lessons are fun, focused and interesting and integrate voice science, acting through song, technical exercises, musicianship and repertoire work. Hannah knows singing can be a very personal and nerve wracking thing, so whilst lessons are technical and designed to show fast improvement, humour and a relaxed environment remain at their core.
As a performer, Hannah has a wealth of experience both in London and in the South West as a musical theatre performer and session vocalist and has sung with some of the biggest names in musical theatre, including John Owen Jones, Jenna Russell & Hadley Fraser, alongside working with many musicians and orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra. Hannah has also featured as a soloist on Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night, and more recent performances include The Hired Man at Cadogan Hall.
Lessons come in all shapes and sizes, including 1-2-1 singing tuition, group workshops, audition coaching, acting through song seminars, repertoire consultation and speech preparation. Speech preparation guidance includes weddings, public speaking and corporate functions. Lessons can be adapted to suit your needs, whatever your level, and whatever your experience. Hannah has a full, clean, enhanced DBS check and undertakes regular child protection training and courses in safeguarding, mental health and wellbeing. Lessons can be taught in person, or online to best suit your needs.
Hannah is also a registered Vocal Health First Aid Practitioner. A Vocal Health First Aid Practitioner is certified for their understanding of vocal health and the factors that can affect vocal wellbeing. They have the practical skills to spot the signs of a range of vocal dysfunction, and the knowledge to help someone towards recovery by guiding them in practical self-management, or by passing them on to further support, whether that is specialist vocal rehabilitation coaching or clinical treatment.
Vocal health has always been at the heart of Hannah’s work, and she continues to advocate for positive change in an industry that can, so often, push singers towards exhaustion, fatigue and vocal burnout. Hannah also continues to research trauma, and what effect traumatic experiences with singing in training or unhealthy professional contracts and auditions can have, long term, on the voice and the performer as a whole.
“Thanks to Hannah I can now sing repertoire I haven’t even dreamt about in years!”
Kristin Lidström - Actress
Frozen II, Mary Poppins Returns, Cosette - Les Miserables (Swedish Cast)