Author Spotlight: Meet Stewart Pearce
Tell me a bit about yourself and career
During the 1970’s I worked as an impassioned Actor, loving the words of Shakespeare and other great poetic writers of the Stage. Then in 1980 I made an organic change to Coaching Actors, which came about by being commissioned by Cicely Berry (Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company) to coach Margaret Thatcher and a bevy of Actors. Baroness Thatcher had just taken over the role of the first female Prime Minister and she felt insecure about her voice. Having worked with Margaret other extraordinary commissions arrived and I began coaching other States People, Celebrities with a purpose, leading Actors and CEO’s who were movers and shakers. Whilst attending to these powerful people I also trained young hopefuls for the Stage being appointed as Head of Voice to a leading Conservatoire in London. In 1997 after Diana’s death I then became Master of Voice at the newly reconstructed open-air Shakespeare’s Globe Theater with Mark Rylance sponsoring my appointment.