Written on 22 December 2025.

Françoise Walot

Voice and Text teacher, Voice coach

Training: Conservatoire de Liège (Belgium), Designated Linklater Teacher (USA)

Françoise Walot is an actor, director and vocal coach. She graduated from the Conservatoire Royal de Liège (Belgium) with a Premier Prix and a Diplôme Supérieur in Art Dramatique with La Plus Grande Distinction.

She is a Designated Linklater Teacher, having completed Kristin Linklater’s ‘Freeing the Natural Voice’ teacher training programme in 1993 in the United States.

She worked in Belgium as an actor, director and voice coach until 2010 when she moved to the UK.

DIRECTING, COACHING, ACTING

Her directing credits include Duncan MacMillan's Toutes les Choses Géniales (Every Brilliant Thing) for the Royal Festival de Spa in Belgium (2018) touring to this day, see  https://www.theatrelepublic.be/toutes-les-choses-geniales

Consomme.Com (Brussels, 2008)
Violet Shoe in the Ditch (Diane Broman, Brussels, Clermony-l’Hérault, France) 2006)
Les femmes savent pourquoi (Brussels, 2004-2007)
Le Procès de la Dette de la Coalition des Femmes du Sénégal (Brussels, 2002)
Paroles de femmes (2001, touring Belgium and Romania)
Les Murs ont des Oreilles (Sophie Bonhôte, Liège, 1997)
Chiquet Mawet: Le Pape et la Putain (Belgique, 1996)
Chiquet Mawet: La Pomme des Hommes (Belgique, 1993)
Rien de Personnel by Francoise Vear and Pierre Berthet (Liège, 1986).

Directing for MA Acting in the Classical Tradition at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, 2023-2024:

scenes from Molière: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, Don Juan, The School for Wives
scenes from Racine: Phèdre, Britannicus, Bérénice

Directing at the Conservatoire of Liège for the BA Acting:

The Persians (Aeschylus) 1986
Scenes from As You Like It (Shakespeare) and scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) 1988
Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare) 1990

Coaching actors (voice and text) in production at:

BADA: Henry II and Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare; Camus, Caligula (2025)
LAMDA: It’s true, it’s true, it’s true, Breach Theatre Co (2022); Lope de Vega, Punishment without Vengeance (2023)
The Exorcist by John Pielmeier at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2016).
The Birmingham Conservatoire: Brecht, Mère Courage (2014)
The Matchbox by Frank McGuinness at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool (2012).
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh at the Theatre de Poche Bruxelles (2002).

Professional acting credits in Belgium:

Kofi Kwaule, Mysterioso (2008)
Baudelaire-Pousseur: Leçon d’enfer (1993)
Claudel, L'Annonce Faite à Marie (1991)
Marivaux: Le Prince Travesti (1990)
Shoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire (1989)
Baumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro (1988)
Le Théâtre de l'Eveil (L'Eveil du Printemps et Tyl Ulenspiegel 1983-1985)
Théâtre du Parc (Le Mariage de Figaro 1988)
Gorki, Les Estivants (1988)
Le Groupov The Show Must Go On (1987)
Brecht, Baal (1983)

In the US, she trained at the Summer Training Centre with Shakespeare and Company and performed

Love's Labor's Lost and As You Like It (1988)
Henry the Fifth with the Company of Women (1994)

In Brussels, she ran Le Théâtre "Le Café!" (2000-2004), a small-scale theatre devoted to cabarets, feminist and political theatre.

TEACHING

British American Drama Academy
Coaching and teaching Voice and text

MIO (Midsummer in Oxford) 2025-2026
Sept-March (London Program) 2025-2026

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
Lead teacher (Voice) August 2022 – August 2024, teaching Practical Voice (A and B); doing show support (C and E2). Organizing the teaching of all three subjects (Voice, text and accent). Directing MA Actors in their French classical scenes (Racine and Molière)
Associate Teacher (Voice) Sept 2021-August 2022 teaching Practical Voice (A, B, E1, D courses); text (A, E1, D); as a Director, Classical French Scenes (D), Show and Production support (Helena Lymbery: It's true, it's true, it's true; Oliver Birch: Lope de Vega’s plays).

Florida State University
Aug 2020 - May 2021: online teaching Linklater Voice BA Year 1, Linklater and Classical Texts (Sonnets and Shakespeare Monologues) BA year 2

Central School of Speech and Drama
Visiting Lecturer (Voice) Oct 2017-June 2021, teaching Embodied Voice Practices for the Master in Voice Studies, Teaching and Coaching Course.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Visiting lecturer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 2011 – 2017
Assistant Lecturer in Voice 2017 – 2021, teaching Voice into text for the BA Applied Theatre year 1 and 2, Practical voice on the MA Acting, MFA Acting in the British Tradition year 1 and 2 and the MA Professional Voice Practice courses.
She also provided pastoral, academic and pedagogical support to the students including supervising Postgraduate research project in acting and voice, and vocal support on student productions (BA Acting and BA Applied Performance).

Cork School of Music Drama Department
Linklater Voice Progression of the exercises for advanced students and voice teachers, 2007.

Conservatoire Royal de Mons (B)
Voice teacher for the BA Course (2002-2010).

Emerson College (Boston, in Well, Holland)
Teaching Movement, Text and Improvisation; directing contemporary scenes from the American repertory to BA Year 1 students (1991-1994).

Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon, Portugal
Linklater Voice classes (voice and text) to acting students First and Second Year (Principal: Jorge Listopad, 1990).

Conservatoire Royal de Liège (B)
Visiting teacher for the BA Course teaching voice and acting (1988-1999)
Directing: The Persians (Eschylus), The Winter’s Tale; scenes from As You Like It; scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde).

OTHER RECENT EXPERIENCE TEACHING VOICE INCLUDES

Lead Teacher for the Linklater Designation Program, Orkney UK (2022-2023)
Natural Voice, Voice and Movement and Voice and Text at the Grotowski Centre in Wroclaw-Poland (2022-2023-2025)
Voice and text workshops in Chalon-sur-Saône Conservatoire France (2019)
Workshops for poets for the Ledbury Poetry Festival, and for The Rebecca Swift Foundation UK (2015-2025)
Regular evening workshops in the Linklater method in London (2017-2019)
One to one sessions with actors, voice teachers and other professionals (ongoing)
Natural Voice workshops and Freeing Shakespeare's Voice workshops in Birmingham (Co-Founder of Linklater Voice Birmingham with co-teacher Simon Ratcliffe) (2013-2018)

EDUCATION

Associate Fellowship of HEA, 2017.

VOICE: Designated Linklater Teacher, having completed Kristin Linklater’s ‘Freeing the Natural Voice’ teacher training programme in 1993 (US).

ACTING: Premier Prix and a Diplôme Supérieur in Art Dramatique with La Plus Grande Distinction at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège 1980-1986 (B).

General education: Humanités (Langues classiques) Athénée d'Ottignies (B).

OTHER TRAININGS

Theatre Voice and Speech Training Methods for Working with Gender-Diverse Clients and Students with Diane Robinson, (Online training 2021)
Microaggession and Anti-Racism training (Central School of Speech and Drama 2020)
Inclusive practice: Daron Oram, Petronilla Whitfield, Colin Farquahrson, (Dyslexia, dyspraxia CSSD 2018-2019- 2022)
Visually impaired Awareness Training for Theatre Practitioners with Extant Theatre (London, 2019)
Movement: Trish Arnold (US) Susan Dibble (US) Merry Conway (It) Lorna Marshall (H)
Voice/Singing: Margaret Pikes, Barbara Houseman, Cecily Berry, Venice Manley and Helen Chadwick.

WRITING

“After the Storm” in Who Are We Now? A collection of true stories about Brexit (2019), edited by Katy Massey
Close to my Heart/Près du Coeur: one woman show (2009)
Monument à la Femme Inconnue: one woman show (1998)
Songs for Garrett List (1987)
Kabrioles, one woman show (1986).

TRANSLATION/ADAPTATION/PERFORMANCE

The Persians, Aeschylus, by Frederic Rzewski (from the English to French 1985).

Françoise Walot
Designated Linklater Teacher
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