Ros Steen

ASSOCIATE EDITOR, SCOTLAND
Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Contributions to IDEA:
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Bio: Professor Ros Steen is an emeritus professor, fellow of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and an honorary accredited teacher of Nadine George Voice Work. Formerly she was head of drama research and the Centre for Voice in Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she established NGVW as the core spoken technique for the Centre’s teaching, practice, and research agendas, and spent many years pioneering its use as a medium of rehearsal and a way of teaching dialects.

She was the first visiting scholar to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she worked with the multi-award-winning director John Tiffany as part of his research fellowship. Landmark productions include Alan Cumming’s Macbeth (UK and Broadway) and Black Watch for the National Theatre of Scotland.

Ros has been a voice specialist for theatre, film, TV, and radio for more than 40 years, and her extensive credits include many new writing premieres as well as classical texts for, among others, the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the BBC. While continuing to work on productions, she gives master classes, workshops, and lessons in voice and dialect for a wide range of organizations and creative practitioners, and she has worked internationally in the United States, Germany, Sweden, and Croatia.

Her practice-based research is into the voice work’s connection to the creative processes of actors, writers, directors, and performers. She has published several papers and articles and given presentations nationally and internationally about her findings. She is the editor of Growing Voices, which traces the evolution of the influence of Nadine George Technique in training and performance, and a major contributor to the establishment of a formal accreditation process for new teachers of the work.

Contact: ros.steen@btinternet.com; https://nadinegeorgevoicework.com/accredited-teachers