Kate Foy

Kate Foy is a freelance actor, voice artist and coach. She has over 20 years’ experience  in teaching and coaching, most recently with University of Southern Queensland as Associate Professor (Voice).  With long-time colleague Robert Ketton she formed Expressive Plus in 2008 to serve the growing presentation skills needs of private and corporate clients.

Dialect and Voice Coach

Kate is available to coach you personally or  coach your film or play. With over 20 years’ experience and 40 productions working with actors including coaching English-language dialects as well foreign language accents, Kate is well placed to prepare you or your project for special voice needs.  Kate can visit for just a few days, or be on-set for the duration of your project in addition to providing CD or audio and video Skype coaching for your actors. As well as dialect-coaching, Kate will address every aspect of your actors’ performances, coaching the acting if required, the dialogue, and annotating each take for the director and editor. Tweaking the performances between takes saves time later during looping/ADR.

Kate is a member of VASTA the international Voice and Speech Teachers’ Association, and served as Associate Editor (Australia) and contributor for the International Dialects of English Archive.

Contact Kate via KAM Voices: +61 7 3368 1700

New technologies research practitioner

Kate has a national profile in the use of Apple computing products, including Mac-based e-learning in higher education (AUC Wheels for the Mind Autumn 2007).  She continues to be in demand as a consultant and presenter for conferences in performance, presentation and e-learning.

She has a particular interest in the use of social media and its application in business.  If you’d like to know more about this growing communications platform and how it can work for you, engage Kate for an introductory talk to your group.

Kate writes regularly on performance, voice, new technology and life in general in her personal blog Groundling.

Education

PhD University of Hawaii at Manoa (1999)BA (1987) MLitt (1989) University of New England

Kate currently serves as a Director of Empire Theatres Pty Ltd. Since 2003 she has been Chairman of the Board Queensland Theatre Company.

Kate is listed in “Who’s Who in Queensland.”