Hazel Holder – Voice & Dialect

Hazel completed her MA in Voice at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
 
As a performer her theatre includes: Here We Go, As You Like It (choir), Medea and Death and the King’s Horseman at The National; Here All Night and Zero for Clod Ensemble; The Bakkhai at The Almeida; The Tempest at the RSC; Journey to Freedom for Marginal Voices; Dart’s Love at Tete-aTete Opera Festival; Cave of Wonders and Tamba Tamba for Tiata Fahodzi; White Suit, Dalston Songs (also ROH) and Songs of Exile (also ROH) for Helen Chadwick Song Theatre; The Bacchae at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Six Characters in Search of an Author for Headlong; The Bacchae for National Theatre of Scotland and the Lincoln Center, Broadway; Fingerprint (ROH2), Critical Mass and Lip for The Shout; Myths and Hymns at the Finborough; Captain Oates’ Left Sock for the Royal Court 50th Anniversary; Mercy Fine for Clean Break; The Lion and the Jewel and Trojan Women – Women of Owu for Collective Artistes; The Sleeping Beauty for the Young Vic, the Barbican and on Broadway; Mourning Song for Black Mime; Maskarade for Talawa; and Carmen Jones and Ain’t Misbehavin’ in the West End.
TV: includes EastEnders, Judge John Deed, Doctors, The Cambridge Spies and The Bill. Films: The Followed. Radio: Something Understood, Death and the King’s Horseman, The Ern & Vern Show, Roots, Solomon Child and Telephone in the Deep Freeze.
Hazel is lead vocalist with jazz band The Rag’n’Bone Club and also a member of a cappella group The Helen Chadwick Group.

As a Voice, Accent & Dialect Coach:
Barber Shop Chronicles, Angels in America, Les Blancs and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for the National; Guys & Dolls for Talawa Theatre Company & The Royal Exchange; Caroline, or Change for Chichester Festival Theatre; The Mountaintop and The Emperor for The Young Vic; Half Breed and Girls for Talawa Theatre Company & Soho Theatre; Grimly Handsome, Bodies, Pigs & Dogs and Father Comes Home from the Wars for the Royal Court; Cuttin’ It for Young Vic and The Royal Court; Soul for Royal & Derngate and Hackney Empire; The Rolling Stone for The Orange Tree Theatre and The Royal Exchange Theatre; F*ck The Polar Bears for The Bush; Misanthropes for Old Vic New Voices Festival; Eclipsed and The Rise & Shine of Comrade Fiasco for The Gate; The Initiate for Paines Plough; Hatch, Soap Box and Lie With Me for Talawa Young Peoples Theatre; HAMBA and The Epic Adventure of Nhamo for Tiata Fahodzi.  Guildhall School of Music & Drama, RADA, ALRA, Arts Ed, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama; NT Education Dept.
 
Dialect work for TV: In The Long Run; Poldark; No Offence; Broken; Dr Pepper.
 
Hazel was Resident Director for the premier London production of Dreamgirls 2016-2017
 
Hazel volunteers with Marginal Voices, a charity that helps trafficked women dramatise their experiences.