"Anna-Helena McLean's work as an actor trainer shows the honest process behind the company's stunning theatrical pieces. She brings powerful transformation to students conducting them into the deepest expressive parts of themselves through intense physicality and play, ceaseless attention to ensemble, vocal release, and impulsive bravery.  Her Actor-Chorus-Text work is immediate,  inclusive, effective and unforgettable". 

Dexter Bullard, Head of Graduate Acting at The Theatre School at DePaul University, Founding Artistic Director of Plasticene Physical Theater, Broadway Director and Alumni Director for The Second City

​"McLean has developed a genuinely informed, intellectually engaged researching practice as a teacher and workshop leader. She is at the forefront of the next generation of psycho-physical acting investigations, and of embodied research more widely."

Yvon Bonenfant, Head of Voice and Theatre, University College Cork

10 week voice and performance
'ACT Sex' - Practice as research lab

Sharing of Lab Work in Progress 
6th of April 2020, 5.30pm at Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 this event was cancelled and transferred online to a closed group of researchers. 
Email to enquire about the next open sharing and visit this link to see one of the resulting etudes of work from the process VIDEO LINK

To book a workshop

lecturer in song & shakespeare
rose bruford college

voice and performance residency

Next August (2021), international theatre company MOON FOOL is leading a 10-day actor/voice training residency in Genoa, Italy, and we are inviting artists from all around the world to take part.  

"This rigorous training challenges the individual to shed inhibition and focuses on the ethos and practice of ensemble - mutuality... Anna-Helena leads with a rare combination of musicianship, intellectual and emotional enquiry” 
Hugh Hodgart, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 

Watch the company at work in this video

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ACT INTERNATIONAL 2021 Enquiry

Jan 29-Feb 27 2020

Photo gallery taken during a module on The ACTing Voice during the MA Actor Performer Course for Rose Bruford College 2018. Taken at St. Barnabus Church, Dalston by Gabriel Gawin.

act online

Anna-Helena currently offers 1 on 1 and group coaching online as well as virtual choirs and other performance practice visit ACT ONLINE. The company are currently developing their training with Arts Council England funding due to open for public projects from September 2021. If you are interested in joining a 12 week pilot project over 9 week next May please get in touch. Places are limited and priority given to those with previous ACT training experience.

Session are tailored to request and cover a broad range of individual and professional needs including;

- body conditioning
- voice work and extension
- singing
- coaching in teaching style and repertoire development
- virtual choir
- songwriting and performance
- building a scene
- making a solo show

Sessions range between 40  and 90 minutes and run on Skype or Zoom, according to preference.

To make any enquiries please contact us on the site or visit HERE for more details

Full training packages will soon be available for groups, companies and individuals; youth, adult, able and disabled. During lockdown 2020 MOON FOOL ran a virtual choir 'Singing Village bringing us through and beyond the pandemic'. To commission a similar project or find out about repeat series please enquire.

Our arts practice operates on an open to all basis. Minority, BAME, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals are guaranteed equal rights and policies.