Flloyd Kennedy is an Australian actor, singer, clown, writer, director and voice and acting coach. She took part in the British folk revival in the 60s, performed street theatre, cabaret and fringe theatre, and was Artistic Director of Golden Age Theatre (Scotland) for 6 years. Since returning to Brisbane in 1997, she has directed and performed with many local independent theatre companies and short films. She has taught at RSAMD, QUT, UQ, and Guest Lectured at ACU, Uni of Otago, ASU and Rutgers Camden. Flloyd provides coaching for student and professional actors, private individuals and community and corporate groups through her teaching practice Being in Voice and she is Artistic Director of Thunder’s Mouth Theatre (theatre of poetry, passion and philosophy). Her latest play, The Fall of June Bloom (or What You Will), was produced in Brisbane in 2010 and in Phoenix AZ in 2011. She is presently collaborating with Across The Pond (Seattle) on their forthcoming production “Man Catches Fish” for the Nanaimo Fringetastic Festival of Theatre.

Flloyd has now submitted her doctoral thesis "Shakespeare’s Voice: A Theory of the Voice in Performance” (UQ Drama) for examination. She regularly reviews theatre for Critical Mass and ArtsHub, and blogs about all things voice and theatre at http://www.being-in-voice.com and about life, the universe and growing older disgracefully at www.flloyd-in-voice.com.