Dee Cannon is the main senior acting teacher at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
where she has worked since 1993, and directed
more than 25 plays including, currently, Come
Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and The
Diary of Anne Frank.
Scroll down to the bottom of this page
for slide show of
cast photos and group shots
based on Dee's work around the world.
Dee
Cannon is also a freelance acting coach/director, working
in London, Los Angeles and throughout the world.
Coaching work includes Jon Voight
Matthew Modine
Courtney Love
Natalie Imbruglia
Billie Piper
Sinead O'Connor Emma Bunton (Spice
Girls) Tina Barrett (S
Club 7) Hannah Spearritt (S Club 7) Gareth Gates (Pop
Idol)
as well as numerous actors at The Royal
National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare
Theatre, BBC, ITV
and Channel 4.
All the quotes in the animation above are taken from
(fully attributed) comments by students and professional
colleagues. See the TESTIMONIALS
page for further details.
Dee has worked with stars from a number of musicals, including
London West End shows The Phantom
of the Opera, Wicked, Joseph
& Carousel and, in Manila, The
Sound of Music and Aspects
of Love.
Dee has just co-directed V-Day
(Vagina
Monologues) at RADA, with
a cast including Linda
Marlowe, Lisa
Eichhorn, Bonnie Greer, Geraldine
Alexander, Hilary Wood and Wendy
Nottingham.
She was invited to work at E15 on
the international MA Acting course as guest director
on their scene study showcase.
Her work as an acting coach was featured
in Channel 4's award
winning series Faking
It
and Joe Millionaire UK.
She has recently returned from LA where she was working
in Hollywood on a sitcom for Warner
Brothers and conducting a series of workshops.
In adition to her directing work at RADA,
she has recently directed Aspects
Of Love in Singapore. Recent workshop
series include Sweden, Berlin and
London.
Dee has been a collaborator and contributor to the new
Stanislavski Museolobby that will open soon in Moscow.
The pictures above were taken during rehearsals for
Aspects of Love in Manila early in 2006. See the Dee
in Action page for further impressions of Dee at
work.
