World Voice Day

Amy Hume

Voice & Dialect Coach

Amy Hume is a Voice Teacher at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and the Creative Director of award-winning business, Viva Voice. She is one of only seven Designated Linklater Teachers in Australia and also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Voice from VCA with First Class Honours.

Amy was one of the Voice / Dialect Coaches at Matilda the Musical in Sydney. Most recently, she was Dialect Coach for Critical Stages’ national tour of Stones in his Pockets, Red Line’s Look Back in Anger at the Old Fitz, and on Sam O’Sullivan’s new Australian play, The Block Universe (Or So It Goes) at Old 505. Amy has also coached productions for NIDA, Sport for Jove, Shakespeare & Co (Lenox, MA), The Shakespeare Forum (New York) and Columbia Stages (New York). Amy provides ongoing voice and dialect support to companies including The HUB Studio and ATYP. 

Dr Cate Madill 

Internationally recognised Speech Pathologist

Dr Cate Madill originally trained as an actor at Flinders University of South Australia before studying Speech Pathology. She worked as a part-time lecturer in Voice in both Speech Pathology and Acting degrees whilst completing her PhD in voice quality and personality attribution research.

Cate is an Honorary Associate of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, a member of the Australian Voice Association, the NSW Voice Interest Group and the NSW Evidence-Based Practice in Voice working group. She is voice consultant to the radio department at AFTRS and has conducted voice training workshops for actors, singers, teachers, call centres and auctioneers. She has undergone training in a range of voice techniques including Voicecraft™, Estill Voice Training™, Lessac Madsen Resonant Voice, LSVT.

She is experienced in diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders in voice professionals.

Prudence Holloway

Singing Teacher

Prudence is a Music and Singing Teacher with a private studio specialising in professional and pre-professional young performers. Prudence has had students perform in “The Lion King”, “The King & I” and in the title role of Matilda in “Matilda the Musical” and the soon to open “Kinky Boots”. She is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts has completed postgraduate studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She also teaches at Sydney Theatre School (STS) and The Academy of Film, Theatre & TV (AFTT).

As a performer Prudence has worked across many facets of the industry, including Musical Theatre, Cabaret, Theatre, TV. Highlights include Carrie – The Musical (Squabbalogic), and the upcoming web-series THIRTY set to be released mid 2017. She is also the co-founder of Theia Entertainment a soon to be launched corporate entertainment company with a focus on supporting women in the creative arts.