Vivien Parry
Acting Tutor
Vivian has been an actor and teacher since 1987 and continues to work at the highest level in theatre and television. Her acting CV includes leading roles in West End musicals such as: Cabaret, Half a Sixpence, Top Hat and Mamma-Mia along with leading roles at the RSC and television.
Her workshops and classes on text work in acting and acting through song and audition technique include ongoing teaching at Drama Studio, University of Westminster from 2010 – 2024.
As a teacher, she has worked as a vocal/audition coach in musical theatre with acting through song, and textual analysis for plays and television at Rose Bruford, University of Westminster Drama Studio and BIMM Essex.
Influenced and under the tutelage of Terry Hands, Vivian has created and run sonnet workshops at Drama Studio and Rose Bruford and de-mystifying Shakespeare through both sonnets and scene work, work that she now brings to BIMM Essex beginning September 2024.
Physical theatre informs the way she teaches acting, and she has created workshops and classes in how to create character work through animal observation and study which then leads onto creating character through movement. This can then be used to create original monologues and brought into text work.
