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Voice Coach Director, Poll Moussoulides, is Ireland’s leading Voice Coach and one of Europe’s most sought after Vocal Communications experts. Since 1987 his skills have been employed to help thousands improve and optimise their vocal abilities.
By adapting the principles of Actor training, Poll has created a practical and wholly attainable method for all to communicate with greater physical confidence and vocal expertise.
Whether his clients have been multi Oscar® award winning Actors, Barristers, Call-centre Operatives, Teachers, Counsellors, Sales Teams, Television & Radio Journalists, Presenters and Newsreaders, Trainers, Chief Executives of international corporations or Government Ministers, all have worked with Poll to give themselves the dynamic edge that leads to enduring communication success.
Having been Head of Voice at both the Gaiety School of Acting and the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin, he has been Voice Coach in all of the country's major Theatres, and has coached thousands of Actors, from absolute beginners to multi Oscar® award winners, on over 45 Irish and International Feature and TV films (Mia Farrow, Cillian Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane, Anna Friel, Jon Voight, Richard Dreyfus, Angela Lansbury, Donal McCann, Roger Daltry, Andrea Corr, Joss Stone, Diane Wiest, Elijah Wood, Sheila Hancock, Pierce Brosnan….) For a full list of credits click here.
Born in Dublin, Poll left Ireland to train at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Eastern Michigan University. He returned home in 1987 to take up the position of Voice Coach to the Gaiety School of Acting. In 1988, he founded Young Gaiety and from 1989 to 1992 was Assistant Director to the School’s Director, Joe Dowling. Poll left the full-time staff in 1995 and returns regularly to give master classes. In 1989, Poll became Lecturer in Voice at the Samuel Beckett Drama Faculty in Trinity College Dublin, a position he held until 1994. He is currently Head of Voice at the Irish Film Academy, and online Voice Expert at the VHI.
In 1991, he was appointed Voice and Presentation Coach to the Newsroom in R.T.E., where he continues to work with Journalists, Reporters and Presenters from Current Affairs, News, Sport, Young Peoples and Lifestyle Radio and T.V Programmes. It was a particular honour when, in 1992, Poll was invited as a guest Voice Coach & Speaker to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s symposium “Theatre Voice”. Poll is an Associate at the Irish Management Institute where he has regularly delivered vital components to communication and leadership courses since 1992. He is also an Associate at the Edinburgh Institute of Leadership & Management Practise at Napier University.
Poll recently established the Irish Voice Association, and is also a founding member of the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA). He has appeared on many TV & Radio shows as a Vocal Communications Consultant.
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