Hello, I’m Nerida

I started acting in a church-hall company at nineteen and have played everything from a nurse in a pantomime to Lady Macbeth in the old Theatre Royal. For the last ten years I have also coached young actors for drama-school and company auditions.

Most auditions are lost in the choosing, not the playing. So I write each week about one part of a monologue: finding one, cutting it, learning it and walking into the room. The workbooks in the shop are what I hand my students.