Katherine Poulsen is a Sydney based voice trainer and theatre director who currently lectures in Voice and Acting Shakespeare on the Bachelor of Dramatic Art program at Wesley Institute and teaches American Dialect and voice for screen actors at Screenwise. As a voice teacher she has instructed at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), The Actors Centre, the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), the Actors College of Theatre and Television (ACTT), and in New Zealand at the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA). She has acted and directed for the stage in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Katherine completed her undergraduate degree in Theatre at Theatre Nepean (BA Performance, University of Western Sydney-Nepean) and her post graduate degree in Voice Studies at NIDA, with a diploma from ATCL Speech & Drama. As an adjunct to her theatre training Katherine has trained in music, ballet, corporeal mime and life drawing, all of which she has found to enhance her abilities as a director and instructor.
Grad. Dip Voice National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) Sydney Australia; BA University of Western Sydney-Nepean; ATCL Speech & Drama, Trinity College London.
