Lisa Doran

Education

About me

I'm highly versatile, with decades of experience in the profession. After graduating from one of the UK's top drama colleges in the 1950s I worked extensively on stage and TV (far too many roles to list each one!). I've spent much of my professional life nurturing the next generation - teaching and training younger actors, and directing them in plays ranging from Agatha Christie to Shakespeare and everything inbetween. I still want to pass on my skills but I also want to spend more time in front of the camera or on the stage myself. I have the advantage that for audiences I'll be a fresh old face!
Additional skills:
I've worked with kids with special educational and behavioural needs, so can adapt my teaching and directing for many types of students.
Additional information:
I took a career break to raise my daughter and then extended my skills by graduating as a professional teacher. I worked for many years at the Academy Theatre School in Whitechapel, providing first class training and directing for young and aspiring actors from backgrounds where accessing traditional drama schools was difficult.

Skills

Accents/Dialects	American - General, English - Cockney, English - General, English - London, English - Received Pronunciation, English - Southwest England, French (Standard International), German, Irish, Irish Eastern (Leinster, Dublin), Irish Southern (Munster, Cork), Irish Western (Connacht, Galway), New York, Northern Irish, Scottish, Scottish - Central, Scottish (Edinburgh), Scottish (Glaswegian), Scottish (Highland, Inverness), Scottish (Lowland, Broad Scots), Scottish (West Coast), Southern American, Swiss (French), Swiss German, Upper-class American
Vocal Types	Alto
Musical Skills	Piano/Keyboards
Organisations / Memberships	Equity (UK)