About Perry Piercy
ABOUT ME
As a trained teacher and an award winning actor and director, I bring a wealth of experience to my voice coaching.
Becoming a Master in Voice was a natural and purpose-driven evolution of my métier, building on my career as an actor and a teacher of acting.
I am the only Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework© in New Zealand, and one of the few people to hold an MA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where I graduated with Distinction.
My work has taken me outside of my home city of Wellington to Auckland, London and Singapore. I also do private coaching with clients from all over New Zealand and around the world.
Whether it’s accent modification, learning dialects for a film, or presence and presentation skills for better workplace success, I bring to you practical and knowledgeable strategies and techniques to elevate your life through elevating your everyday, vital, and primary means of communication — your voice.
How I can help
Let me help you achieve
the presence you want
For Individuals
Personalised coaching empowers you to transform your voice and presence. You’ll receive responsive and specific feedback to meet your individual needs.
Learn how choices in voice, posture and body language can develop your personal presence. Sessions from one hour to two hours.
For PROFESSIONALS
The individually crafted voice and presence program is designed to empower staff to realise their vocal potential and the benefits it can bring to daily communication, so that they can bring their best, professionally and personally.
These sessions allow responsive and specific feedback, to address concerns and meet individual needs. Sessions from thirty minutes to one hour.
For ACTORS & PRODUCERS
Cutting edge dialect coaching skills, training in England, USA and Singapore.
With over 35 years professional experience and more than 15 years of teaching, I provide support for film and theatre including dialect coaching for film, and help with audition preparation.
I coached more than 35 different accents on the joint BBC, Working Title and Fremantle series ‘The Luminaries’. In the past year I have coached a range of American accents for Netflix and Amazon film productions in NZ.
MA Voice Studies (Distinction) Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework©
Knight Thompson Speechwork Experiencing Speech 1&2
Bachelor of Performing Arts.
Diploma of Teaching.
Notable Teaching Work
New Zealand
RATA Studios (with Miranda Harcourt)
Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa: New Zealand Drama School (Toi Whakaari)
Wellington Performing Arts Centre (WPAC)
London
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) (a world-leading school for actors, stage managers, directors, designers)