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 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 Gareth Gates
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 various members
of the following pop groups:
The Spice Girls, S
Club 7, The
Saturdays and
5ive.
Dee has worked with stars from
a number of musicals, including London West End shows The
Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Joseph
, Carousel,
The Lion King & Jersey
Boys.
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.
Dee Cannon's
audition monologue
suggestions are
published by Methuen: 100
Exercises to Get You into Drama School.
The Guardian
- Guide to Acting includes a chapter by Dee
Cannon: What makes
an actor truly great?
Dee Cannon is listed as one of the top acting coaches
in Showbiz:
Illustrated Times and Lives of the Greatest Names in
Cinema, published in 2009 by FAMSPA,
New York
