the short version...
Flloyd Kennedy - actor, director, writer, voice and acting coach – has trained and worked in Australia and overseas. She currently works with opera and theatre companies (professional and student) in Australia and abroad, teaches voice and performance studies at Queensland University of Technology and provides voice and acting training through her private studio Being in Voice. Flloyd is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, her research topic being “Towards a Theory of the Voice in Performance”, and she also creates handmade jewellery.You can follow Flloyd's journey into uncertain age on her personal blog/podcast.
the long version...
FLLOYD KENNEDY Australian actor/writer/director, folk and jazz singer and voice coach has trained and worked in Australia, UK, USA, Nigeria, New Zealand and Russia. As well as performing in cabaret and satirical revues, she toured folk clubs in England and Scotland, and helped to run the Singers’ Club and the Croydon Come All Ye in London at the height of the folk revival, and the Ceilidh Grill in Tiree, Scotland (she was also the chef).
While based in Scotland, she raised two sons, ran drama workshops for the Port Glasgow Association of Tenants’ Groups, performed street theatre, cabaret and fringe theatre, was lead vocalist with The Black Diamonds Havana Band (trad jazz) and Chorde en Bleu (modern jazz). After three years as deputy wardrobe mistress for the King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Flloyd returned to her performing career, touring Scotland with Annexe Theatre, Shared Boat, Cahoots and several one-woman plays under the auspices of the Scottish Arts Council. She established Performance Exchange, coordinating workshops and inter-disciplinary skills training for theatre practitioners in Scotland, and was founding Artistic Director of Golden Age Theatre (Glasgow), directing and performing in classic and contemporary plays, touring to festivals, theatres, schools and community halls (with workshops) around Scotland. Flloyd was invited to join the collaborative ensemble VoiceTheatre NY during their residency at the Columbia (Maryland, USA) Festival 1992, before visiting Russia to study the work of the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg.
Since returning to Australia, Flloyd has directed opera and theatre productions (professional, student and youth theatre), including Madama Butterfly for the 4MBS Festival of Fine Music, and A Life in the Theatre for Trocadero Productions. She regularly performs with independent theatre and film companies, currently rehearsing the role of Betty in Ti Lian-Siew's new play, Generation Pizza (Judith Wright Centre for the Performing Arts, June 24-26).
Her ensemble company Off The Planet performed mask and physical street theatre in national parks, banqueting halls and on street corners. Her musical play Blame it on Your Mother was first performed in Scotland by The Wicked Ladies, then by The Girls at the Empire Church Theatre, Toowoomba, and received creative development as part of the Metro Art Creative Arts Festival 2007. Her latest play, The Fall of June Bloom: A Modern Invocation, received creative development at the Magdalena Brisbane Easter Gathering 2008, and was presented as a work in progress at the ADSA conference in Dunedin, NZ in July 2008, and at Performing the World in New York in October 2008. She was recently part of the creative development teams for Touching in Public by Reilly Smiles and The Pink Twins by Sue Rider. Flloyd is presently directing Brave New World Order for Dianne Gough Productions, at the Visy Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, from 3 - 12 June 2010.
Flloyd is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, her research topic being “Towards a Theory of the Voice in Performance”. As well as her performing and directing work, she has been teaching voice and performance studies at Queensland University of Technology (Creative Industries), and she offers voice and acting workshops for individuals, and professional, community and corporate organizations through her private studio Being in Voice.