Linda Nicholls-Gidley

Linda holds a Master of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Voice from NIDA and a Bachelor of Arts from Charles Sturt University. Linda is a certified teacher of Knight Thompson Speechwork, one of only two in Australia.

Linda is currently engaged in re-examining the way speech, accents and dialects are taught, applying pedagogical strategies that explore all speech actions and phonetic realisations rather than relying on corrective methodologies.

Silenced (Writer/Actor), In Their Footsteps (Actor), Girl From the North Country (Accent Coach), Jagged Little Pill (Accent Coach)

Voice and Speech Teacher’s Association

Book Chapters

A Moore and S Simon (eds) 2015 Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities, Theories and Practices Routledge, New York

CH 13 International Teaching and Learning Without Leaving the USA: Voice and Movement, Language and Literature.

Journal Papers

Reflections on the 2021 VASTA Conference, Co-author. Kris Danford, Amy Chaffee, Vivian Majkowski, Linda Nicholls-Gidley, Jersten Ray Seraile and Erin Nicole Washington

Cook, R (ed) 2009 The Voice and Speech Review: The Moving Voice Hamlet: 1948, 1973, 2003 – A Comparison

Conference Papers

2019 Drama Victoria: This is Not a Drill: Diversity and Inclusion in Speechwork

2019 Drama Australia Symposium: This is Not a Drill: Revitalising Voice and Speech Exercises for the Classroom

2019 Drama NSW conference: Vocal Skills for Creative Communicators

2018 Drama NSW conference: Vocalise Your Creative Revolution

2018 VASTA conference: Lexical Set