Voice and Speech Courses & Classes in London and Online
Choosing your course
Voice Training for Actors and Professionals at City Lit is offered by some of the highest qualified voice specialists in the industry today. Voice skills are not just for actors, they are for anyone who wishes to unlock the full expressive potential of their voice.
Many of our courses are delivered online. For more information about our live online courses, please see our guide to online learning.
Expert tutors
The majority of our tutors have an MA in Voice Studies from Royal Central School of speech and Drama, the highest international qualification. Our classes are taught by professional performers and practitioners, many of whom also teach at leading London drama schools. We also offer advanced masterclasses focusing on different voice practitioners. Please refer to individual course outlines for individual staff biographies.
Studying at City Lit
Our media studio in the heart of Covent Garden is fully equipped for study of voice in media, including Acting for Radio; Radio Presenting, Voiceovers and how to approach Character Voice for Animation. Our performance studios at City Lit’s Covent Garden headquarters are ideal spaces for working on the technical aspects of voice such as breath and articulation, crucial for any type of public speaking.
Find a course
Browse our range of voice courses in London and online below to choose your perfect option: both complete beginners and returning students are equally welcome at City Lit.
- Debating: improversCourse start date: Wed 27 Oct 2021 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
For those who have some experience in debating or related courses, you will progress quickly in areas of content, strategy and style, while honing your articulation and enunciation. This term the course will be taught online.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £73.00 - Reading great poetry aloudCourse start date: Wed 27 Oct 2021
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
Do you enjoy reading great poetry aloud? Come and join our reading circle and enjoy speaking and listening to the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Eliot, Plath, Hughes, Heaney, Duffy, Motion and Cope among others, while learning vocal technique to enhance the effect your readings have on others.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £73.00 - Improve your speaking voiceCourse start date: Mon 13 Sep 2021 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
Do you need help in speaking with confidence,and getting your point across in situations where you really need to make an impact? Explore ways to improve your voice and gain a skillset you can apply in future. This course will be delivered in the college.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £73.00 - Debating: beginnersCourse start date: Wed 15 Sep 2021 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Debating requires the ability to speak English persuasively in public and, crucially, to respond rapidly to other people’s objections to what you say. We will cover the theory and practice of debating, and you will progress quickly in areas of content, strategy and style. A great mental workout. This course will be taught online.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £73.00 - Voice technique: improversCourse start date: Thu 28 Oct 2021 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
This course will support your extended vocal development with a focus on resonance, tonality and pitch. Open to those who have completed at least one voice course previously as well as professionals looking to refresh their skills. This course will be taught in the college.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £79.00 - Actor's voice: improversCourse start date: Sun 31 Oct 2021 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
It's time to top up your vocal skills! This thorough and fun improvers' course will benefit your further vocal development as an actor or professional speaker. You will consolidate work on breath support and explore pitch and resonance.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £85.00 - Actor's voice: beginnersCourse start date: Sun 19 Sep 2021 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
Improve the quality of your voice and standard of speech; relaxation and alignment; breath capacity/control; articulation, forward placement and vocal expression, primarily aimed at performers. This course will be taught in the college.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £79.00 - Accents: North American standard and regionalCourse start date: Thu 30 Sep 2021 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street (other locations are available)
How to speak with confidence and authenticity in a North American or Broadcast Standard accent as well as several regional American accents This course will be taught in the college.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £97.00 - Use your voice assertivelyCourse start date: Mon 13 Sep 2021 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street (other locations are available)
Do you want to sound more confident, grounded, self-assured and assertive? Improve your vocal skills through a series of exercises that will support you to become more vocally confident, expressive and dynamic without appearing arrogant. This course will be delivered in the college.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £115.00 - Combining voice and PilatesCourse start date: Wed 12 Jan 2022
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
This innovative course shows you how to integrate modified Pilates movements with voice training as a holistic approach to voice, starting at breath release and progressing into phonation and resonance. Through this combination you may begin to find a link between body and voice through the core muscles of support. This course will be taught in the college.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £79.00 - Reading English literature aloud: early 20th centuryCourse start date: Wed 12 Jan 2022
Location on this date: Online
Come and enjoy reading aloud short stories and passages from novels by early 20th century writers including
E.M. Forster; Daphne Du Maurier and D.H. Lawrence.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £79.00 - Speak Shakespeare monologues and scenes: tragediesCourse start date: Wed 12 Jan 2022
Location on this date: Online
Whether you are preparing a Shakespearean monologue for audition or simply have an interest in their structure, rhythm and poetry, this course enables you to work on and speak monologues from the Tragedies with confidence.There is also an opportunity to rehearse duologues from Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £79.00 - Voice technique: beginnersCourse start date: Thu 16 Sep 2021 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
Improve the quality and clarity of your voice through posture, breath capacity and control, articulation, forward placement and pitch. For anyone who wants to make the most of their voice. This course will be taught in the college.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £79.00 - Using your voice for audio books and talking newspapersCourse start date: Tue 14 Sep 2021 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online (other locations are available)
Would you like to narrate audio books? Are you interested in community work such as talking newspapers for the blind? Explore vocal skills and techniques required in these areas and identify what style works for you. This course will be delivered online.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £54.00 - Clear speech
Course start date: Wed 23 Feb 2022Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
This intensive course is ideal if you seek greater clarity and confidence in how you communicate. Suitable for anyone for whom English is the first language. Non- native speakers should attend English Pronunciation Stage 1.
This course takes place in the classroom, please follow this link to find out what we are doing to keep you safe: Staying COVID-19 secure at City LitFull fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £79.00
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