Centre for the Arts

This is Janine Pearson's fourteenth season with the Stratford Festival where she is Head of Voice and a full-time instructor in its Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training. She recently enjoyed eight years in Montreal as Head of Voice and associate Artistic Director of the English acting and playwriting programme of the National Theatre School of Canada under the direction of Perry Schneiderman. She has taught and given workshops across Canada, in the U.S.A. and in England. She has coached with the Grand Theatre, the Montreal Young Company, Canadian Stage and Modern Times. Janine founded the Voice Care and Development Workshop for Educators (Stratford). Recent film credits include Canada: A People's History (CBC/Radio Canada). Janine holds an advanced diploma in voice studies (Central School of Speech and Drama, London), a BMus and a BFA (University of Regina), and associate diploma in singing (University of Alberta) and singing and language studies at the Humboldt Institut (Ratzenried, Germany).