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Drama & Voice Coaching
English Language & Accent Tuition

with Joanna Hempel

 

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Joanna Hempel
9518 4615
0433 896 420
joanna@atticstudio.com

 

 

 

Drama & voice coaching, plus language & accent tuition at the Attic Studio attract people from all parts of Sydney. Sessions are usually individual and proceed at the person's own pace. Joanna Hempel opened the Attic Studio in Glebe in Sydney's Inner West in 2001 after many years as director and successful playwright for the Armidale School of Youth Drama (ASYD).

Actors and students of drama come to the Attic Studio to take performance skills to higher levels.

Media and Professional people come to improve voice confidence and presentation skills.


Students of English language and accent correction receive private lessons to expand their employment prospects, and enrich their social and cultural lives by gaining fluency in English.

 

'Thank you for stretching and refining my voice and movement. I now have a Media job with Sky television in London'
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Singaporean student with MA in Media from Syd University

'A wondrous journey into the exciting and creative depths of drama
- Yr 11 student, Newtown High School of the Performing Arts

'In 2 years Joanna has taught me to converse in English; now I am learning to discuss' - retired doctor from Poland

 

Joanna Hempel has shared her techniques as a drama and performance specialist with high school students of drama and English, with teachers of drama and English in colleges, schools and at conferences inter-state & overseas.A graduate in Psychology and English from the University of Sydney, Joanna later trained in Theatre, gaining an M.Litt at the University of New England, Armidale. With a Polish background, she combines multilingual skills with her coaching of Drama, English Language and accent coaching. For the last four years she has been director of Soirees Litteraires with its monthly talks on European and Australian culture at the NSW Writers' Centre in Rozelle. For many years Joanna was Director of the Armidale School of Youth Drama, with six of her plays for teenagers published and today studied and performed in schools in Australia, Canada and the USA. She is now writing a novel based on her family's experiences from World War I to its arrival in Australia from Europe in 1950.

 

‘Her ideas in gesture and communication are inspirational. Her love of Theatre inspires’ - Drama teacher, Star of the Sea, Manly

‘Her lead-up activities are exciting and constructive, the final product fabulous’ - English teacher, Sydney Grammar Junior School, St Ives