Amy Hume

she/her/hers
Voice and Dialect Coach in Melbourne, Australia
Email: admin@amyhume.com.au
Insta: @amyhume_voicecoach

Topics of Expertise

Practical voice, accents and dialects, Australian English, voice into text, heightened text, voice show support, on set voice and dialect coaching, ADR.

Current appointments

  • Lecturer in Voice, Victorian College of the Arts at The University of Melbourne – Full Time

  • Board Member, Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA, Jul 2022 – Dec 2024)

  • Co-Director, VASTA Melbourne Symposium 2024

Degrees and accomplishments

  • PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne

  • Designated Linklater Teacher

  • Associate Diploma in Drama and Performance, Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB)

  • Certificate in Voice and Communication, AMEB

Biography

Amy Hume is a voice and dialect coach for theatre and screen, and Lecturer in Voice at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Her recent theatre credits include Bernhardt/Hamlet, Happy Days, Cyrano, The Sound Inside, Fun Home (Melbourne Theatre Company); Blue, Blessed Union, Jungle and the Sea (Belvoir), An American in Paris (Australian Ballet and GBS); Six the Musical Australia, Billy Elliot Australia (LWAA); White Pearl (Sydney Theatre Company); Merrily We Roll Along (Hayes) and Fangirls (Queensland Theatre/Belvoir). Recent coaching for screen includes Bad Behaviour (Stan); New Gold Mountain (SBS); and The Secrets She Keeps (Ten).

Amy previously taught BFA Acting and MFA Voice students at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from 2015 to 2019. She is a Designated Linklater Teacher and currently serves on the Board of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), the international organisation for voice and dialect practitioners. She regularly designs and facilitates voice and communication training for individuals and organisations across different industries, providing these services throughout Australia.

Amy is an active researcher and current PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne. She has a forthcoming book chapter in Crisis in Creativity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), co-authored with Colin Sneesby, on building resilience in undergraduate acting cohorts. Her research interests include Australian accents, decolonising voice and speech training, and recentering actors in their training.

Other recent research publications include “The Australian accent and actor-training: the current state of play”.

Notable recent work

  • Voice and Dialect Coach – Fun Home, Australian premiere production, Melbourne Theatre Company

  • Voice and Dialect Coach – New Gold Mountain, television series, SBS

  • Voice and Dialect Coach – An American in Paris, Australian National Tour

  • Voice and Dialect Coach – Billy Elliot the Musical 10th Anniversary Tour, Australia

  • Dialect Coach – The Secrets She Keeps, television series, Channel Ten

  • Voice and Dialect Coach – Matilda the Musical Australian premiere production, Sydney