Speaker: Julia Norton

Julia Norton

Julia Norton is a singer, actor and voice coach, with over 25 years experience teaching people how to enjoy a free and healthy voice. Born in the UK, she has been singing her whole life. Always compelled to understand the emotional story behind a singer’s experience, she discovered Voice Movement Therapy and qualified in 2000 right before moving from London to San Francisco. She has composed music for theatre & circus, music directed, has an award winning album ‘Lullaby Island’, performed jazz and musical theatre, and trained as a voice actor. She was a teaching artist for the San Francisco Opera Guild, has presented at conferences all around the world and has an online course in Vocal Health for Professional Voice Users in addition to teaching in person classes. In 2018 she won a Voice Arts award for her lead role in Disney’s Star Wars game Jedi Challenges and launched her popular podcast Dark and Twisty Tales. She currently divides her time between acting, teaching, singing, and getting up to stuff with her family and noisy terrier.