Meet Your Coach
I’m a voice coach, actor and voice artist with a big belief that everyone has an incredible, capable, powerful and expressive voice… just waiting to be released.
I’ve always adored sound and speech. What started as a fervent love for audiobook tapes became a professional performance career across stage, screen and in the booth.
I can help you develop speech and storytelling excellence through play based, embodied, practical and creative skill building incorporating the mind-body-voice relationship.
Working with me means discovering how the voice holds transformative power in connecting us to ourselves, our stories, our experiences, our cultures and each other.
Alongside my MFA: Voice from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, I’ve trained across Australia, South Africa and the USA to form a diverse range of tools and techniques to bring out the best in each client.
Ready to start your voice journey?
Hi, I’m Raechyl
A sample of my voice:
My focus is on developing robust, vibrant, capable performing artists and professional speakers in Australia and beyond. We need all our voices to do this. With me, you can:
Leave fear at the door and navigate your voice with expert support
Experience being seen and heard in your coaching sessions
Develop proven, practical methods to enhance your spoken voice
Propel yourself ahead of the competition by investing in specific vocal skill building
Thrive in your newfound vocal confidence and expressivity
Create meaningful shifts in your career, personal and work relationships, professionalism and skill demonstration
Why work with me?
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🎓︎ MASTER OF FINE ARTS - VOICE: National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney
🎓︎ DIPLOMA OF SCREEN PERFORMANCE: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
🎓︎ BA (English, Italian minor)/ BBus (Event Management): University of the Sunshine Coast
🎓︎ CERT IV: TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT: International Teacher Training Academy
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Lessac Kinesensics Technique: 2023 South African Intensive Workshop, Decolonising Lessac - 2024 US Summer Intensive Workshop and Facilitator Training
Knight-Thompson Speechwork: Experiencing Speech, Phonetics Intensive, Prosody Workshop, Experiencing Accents
VASTA Global Virtual Symposium 2024: In/Corporate Voice
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRAMATIC ART (NIDA)
2022 - Present: selection of key lecturing experiences:
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting): Accent and Dialect course, Text classes, Political Speeches, Phonetics, Lessac Articulation, ‘Articulate’ ADR 3rd year project, Production Support
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Theatre Stage Management): microphone technique and safe theatre vocal use workshops
NIDA MFA Directors: Voice and Text Workshops
Seasonal student productions (outlined in Theatre Productions)
NIDA OPEN
The Confident Voice
General American Accent, Standard British Accent
Studio courses: Vocal Development and General American Accent
OTHER INSTITUTES: SYDNEY ACTORS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, SYDNEY THEATRE SCHOOL, AFTT (now JMC ACADEMY), AUSTRALIAN THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR PERFORMING ARTS, BRENT STREET PERFORMING ARTS
Other institutional coaching in vocal development, individual and ensemble poetry embodiment, Shakespearean text, accents and dialects, extreme vocal use, presentation skills, voice over technique
Speech and Drama taught for Trinity and ASCA exams
THEATRE PRODUCTIONS: VOICE AND DIALECT COACHING
Sister Act The Musical 2024- Dialect Coach (dir: Bill Buckhurst)
Per NIDA: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (dir: Darren Yap), The Seagull (dir: Joseph Uchitel), Machinal (dir: Carissa Licciardello), How I Learned To Drive (dir: Tasnim Hossain), The Seagull (dir: Benjamin Schostakowski)
Per NIDA MFA Support Coaching: When The Rain Stops Falling (dir: Mark Gaal), Ghost Lights (dir: Katy Alexander), A Conversation (dir: Gillian Meisner-Lemon), Hot l Baltimore (dir: Elsie Edgerton-Till), Hurly Burly (dir: Kim Hardwick), A View From The Bridge (dir: Ed Wightman). For 'NIDA Festival of Emerging Artist' - And A Happy New Year (dir: Sophie Benassi), Hydrarchos (dir: Rikiah Lizarraga).
Per AFTT/ JMC Academy: Henry IV and Richard II
Per Sydney Actors School: Separate Tables (dir: Shane Anthony) and Joan Must Die (dir: Megan O’Connell).
Independent Theatre:
Control - Dialect Coach (dir: Lachlan Driscoll)
Three Tall Women - Dialect Coach (dir: Sophie Benassi)
Lunch with Bernays - Dialect Coach (dir: Samira Spring)
Forgotten - Voice and Dialect Coach (dir: Madeleine Diggins)
Sivvy Plath's Birthday Present - Dialect Consultant (dir: Cate Whittaker)
FILM PRODUCTIONS
Numbered Lives feature, 2025 release - On-Set and ADR Dialect Coach (dir: James Clarke)
GUEST COACHING/ TEACHING
Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Ambassadors voice workshop
Belvoir St Theatre: The Weekend (dir: Sarah Goodes) guest show support cover coach in tech week
NSW Speech and Drama Association: Contemporary Text Workshop for Teachers
Midnight Feast Theatre Company: term of extreme vocal use and resonance for actors with disabilities
DIALECTS COACHED:
Australian, Baltimore, Boston, Bolton, Californian Surfer, Cockney, Estuary, Fijian, French, General American, German, Italian, Irish, Mid-Atlantic, Minnesota, New York: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Puerto Rican (Bronx), Received Pronunciation, Scottish, Standard British, Southern American, Yorkshire
Idiolects: Sylvia Plath
LANGUAGES COACHED:
Latin, French, Italian, German
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As a voice over artist, I have voiced commercials, audiobooks, corporate and explainer videos, government and podcast narration, and e-learning. I constantly expand my repertoire of vocal acting skills as a voice coach and actor through performance technique, character voices and dialects.
I work freelance from my home studio and have relationships with a number of Sydney engineers for in-studio bookings.
For samples of my voice work, you can play the audio file above or head over to my Voice Over Website.
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I am a Sydney based actor and graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) Diploma of Screen Performance. I have worked on stage and screen across Australia and trained globally, including a summer semester at the Stella Adler Studio of NYC. My extensive and varied training has consisted of Meisner, Adler, Hagen, Chubbuck, Stanislavski and with many skilled practitioners in improvisation, audition technique, screen acting and a wide variety of voice, acting and movement techniques.
On stage I have been gifted many varied roles including a spotlight stealing ‘Dance-Mom’ Lady Macbeth, a wildly occa Anna from The Government Inspector and a giddy budding novelist in the Sydney debut of The Sweet Science of Bruising. In every project, I adore the process of collaboration, creativity and pursuit of storytelling excellence to create entertaining, resonating works.
Find out more via my Showcast, Casting Networks and Altai profiles.
Ready to master your vocal skills?
“...all human beings can teach themselves to use the “body-whole” constructively, harmoniously, like a finely-tuned instrument - the way nature designed it to be.”
