Cicely Berry

Cicely Frances Berry CBE (17 May 1926 – 15 October 2018) was a British theatre director and vocal coach.

[1] Berry trained under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

She conducted workshops all over the globe, including Korea, Russia, and Asia.

Her work also extended to prisons, using Shakespeare as a vessel to find confidence in speaking and response to imagery.

In addition to her voice and text work in the theatre, she also did work in film, including serving as "dialogue coach" on The Last Emperor (1987); "dialogue coach" on Stealing Beauty (1996); and as "voice specialist" on Julie Taymor's 1999 film, Titus.