Sheila Moriarty's cv (résumé)

Date of birth:       17 August 1915   

Education: Educated privately to Matriculation into London University

1952 - 54           Mature student at the Guildhall School  of Music and Drama     (Teachers' Diploma)

                        External student at the Royal Academy of Music

1962                 Further studies in Choral Techniques with the Greek National Theatre in Athens

Professional qualifications:              L.R.A.M.                 L.G.S.M (Speech and Drama)

Membership of professional bodies:

 1970                Member of the Association of English Singers and Speakers 

1985-86            Elected President of the above Association

Professional experience:

1984-94           Guildford School of Acting and Dance (working in a freelance capacity)

1963-84           Webber Douglas Academy 

                      (invited to take over the voice training and ran the department for twenty years)

1959-60           Poetry Recitals for British Council in Malta

1946-48           'English by Radio' for BBC Latin-American Service

Further experience:

                      Wartime service with C.E.M.A. as Singer and Actress

                      Engaged to demonstrate Verse speaking in the English Department of London         University for Professor B Ifor Evans and for the Poetry for Pubs Movement

              Played Agatha in the first reading of 'Family Reunion' for T.S.Eliot and 'Medea' in a new translation by Rex Warner

1975-76            Examiner in Spoken English (Midland Universities)

1984-94            acting in a freelance capacity with the following establishments:

Guildford School of Acting and Dance; British-American Acting Academy; British and European Studies Group; GRAEAE Theatre Company for the Disabled; BBC Radio News Service; Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute Ltd (London); privately arranged professional coaching; Actor's Centre