Kate
Godfrey

Having worked as an actor for ten years, Kate trained as a voice coach at The Central School of Speech and Drama from 1995-96. She soon became a voice tutor at Mountview Theatre School and the following year, was chosen by Patsy Rodenburg to join the voice department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and later also at The National Theatre. She worked on numerous productions over the next fifteen years as part of the voice department there including ‘Warhorse’, and ‘One man two Guvnors’ and, at the same time, many West end productions. From there she went on to head the Voice and Text department at The Royal Shakespeare Company from 2015 to 2021 where she worked on some fifteen Shakespeare plays including ‘Hamlet’ starring Paapa Essiedu and ‘King Lear’ starring Anthony Sher.
Kate is now a freelance voice coach and has worked at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, Chichester Festival Theatre, and the National Theatre’s touring productions ‘Ocean at the end of the lane’ and ‘The Crucible’. Most recent work has been as voice coach to Jodie Comer on ‘Prima Facie’ in London and New York, and ‘Elektra’ starring Brie Larson at the Duke of York’s theatre, London. Kate’s film work has been as dialogue coach to Fanny Ardant, star of ‘Callas forever’ directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and she was Daniel Radcliffe’s dialect coach for ‘The December Boys’ directed by Rod Hardy.