Alison has poetry in her very being, and she is able to convey to others an awareness of the rhythms and textures in classical text, particularly Shakespeare, and how this opens out the layers of meaning within, and excites the listener.

Cicely Berry CBE, Director of Voice, RSC

In my opinion, Alison is one of the very best voice and text coaches in the business. Her immense reserves of intelligence, imagination, humour and humanity are blended with unsurpassable technical skill to make her both a brilliant teacher and a great enabler.

In the two years we worked together at the RSC she became invaluable to me in helping me get to grips with all the multidimensional demands of speaking and acting Shakespeare and I would work with her again in a heartbeat.

Alison is passionate, empathetic, inspiring and blissfully without the egotistical need to impose a dogma. She is quite simply a genius at getting the best out of anyone and everyone who works with her.

Any actor, performer or theatre company in the world would be extremely lucky to have her wisdom to guide them.

Geoffrey Streatfeild, Actor

Alison's voice work isn't just about voice, it's about opening up and being totally present. She has a way of connecting the body and the voice that totally frees you up, gives you a way into the text that brings it alive in ways you didn't expect and gives you a deeper understanding of the words and therefore the character you are playing.

Jodie McNee, Actor

Alison Bomber has been one of the influential people in my time in this business. I had never felt truly comfortable in my voice. During my time at the RSC, Alison changed that. She works perceptively and generously with you as an individual.

Alison connected my heart to my voice and gave me the confidence to stand out there and simply talk. Her honest but gentle guidance will stay with me forever.

Katy Stephens, Actor

Alison Bomber is the voice and text coach you always want on your team. I have had the pleasure - and I use that word deliberately because working with her is also always a joyous process- on two projects and in taking classes with her intermittently. Alison is all the things you want in a coach- affirming, gentle, encouraging- but also infectiously passionate about the work. 

When working together, she used her extensive knowledge of Shakespeare to help activate my imagination. She encouraged me to follow my curiosity and read the script in a meticulous way. Alison has the ability to go in depth into every word, should the actor desire, and how it was informed by its time and circumstances. I felt my mind expanding while working with her- and her support buoyed me in such a way that it left me hungry for more text exploration. By this I also mean that Alison never made me feel that I couldn’t do my job as an actor without a coach; she ensured that I followed my instincts more and more- working with her is a remarkable actor driven experience, and if I had the means I would work with her regularly every week.

Mahira Kakkar, Actor

Working with Alison was great. She made me realise I had a deeper, more resonant voice than I ever thought I had. She helped me both textually and vocally bring out Helen Edmundson's beautifully poetic dialogue with a real sense of rootedness and truth. For any classical text I ever do in the future, I will search out Alison, not only for her help with voice work but also for her kindness, generosity and sense of fun!

Catherine McCormack, Actor

Alison is a genius, not only for helping actors tone their voices to peak condition for the rigour of theatre performance through her excellent vocal classes and energising, freeing warm-ups, but also for her open, supportive personality, which gives immense strength and confidence. She also offers extremely intelligent input to the interpretation of text, and is always ready to share her extensive knowledge of verse and prose. She was an absolute godsend to me whilst I worked with the RSC. She's got a lovely singing voice too.

Forbes Masson, Actor

Alison demystifies the workings of the voice and gives practical advice that you can immediately access in rehearsal. Her love of Shakespeare is infectious and empowering and her gift is to give simple practical notes which all actors can understand and use in all genres of theatre.

Her warm, friendly and caring nature always makes one feel safe when she is in the room. A good note and approval from Alison means you feel a million dollars!!! Thanks for sharing your gift; I received each word with the utmost appreciation.

Debbie Korley, Actor

Nowhere, in the hundreds of teachers, coaches and mentors that I have encountered, have I met a more inspirational, knowledgeable, soulful and caring theatre professional than Alison. Her enthusiasm in the rehearsal room, whether as director or coach, is infectious. Her sense of theatrical history combined with her ability to engage any and everyone in her buoyant sense of play brings the most frightened actor out of their shell, and into their body and voice. I have personally witnessed actors that have had no contact with Shakespearean text begin a session with Alison in a state of utter panic and negativity. After a scant few hours working with her, they begin to grasp the complexity of the language and the beauty of the sounds and discover their ability to connect those two things to the physical life of their performance.

Personally, Alison taught me to listen with every sense that is available to me, to connect directly with my fellow actors through sight and through energy, to make direct links between the text that I am speaking and the blood that is pumping through my veins, to surprise myself with new thoughts and new passions, to never take any choices or any text for granted, to continually search for answers and through those answers formulate new questions.

Charlesanne Rabensburg, Actor, Columbus, Ohio

Alison is a true inspiration! Her knowledge, approach, understanding and passion for text is absolutely infectious. Alison and I had the pleasure of working together in 2008 and have kept in touch ever since. I loved every minute of our time in the rehearsal room and would do it again in a heartbeat!

I am not sure that she is aware of just how much of an effect she has had; even if I told her she would be too modest to fully accept it but, in brief, she has turned my thoughts around, provided constant inspiration and left an incredible imprint at the heart of all that I have gone on to do.

Alison is forging ahead: breathing fresh air in to all the text she touches, all the actors she works with and all the spaces those actors perform in. Her work is dynamic, engaging, rooted, revolutionary and wonderfully personable.

Bryn Holding, Actor

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery