Jake Hassam is a voice practitioner, actor, and theatre maker, with over a decade of professional performance and conservatoire teaching experience. He trained as an actor at The Oxford School of Drama (2008-2011) and then at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he received an MA in Voice Studies (2018). He teaches Voice and Text, Poetry, Vocal Anatomy, and Political Speech at Rose Bruford College, across the BA Acting, BA Actor Musicianship, and BA Acting for Screen and Devised Performance programmes. For several years he delivered and oversaw the voice curriculum on the BA European Theatre Arts programme.
Jake has provided voice and dialect coaching on many theatre productions, including at Soho Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, and for Netflix’s immersive production of Money Heist. Jake co-founded 6FootStories, a theatre company that predominantly makes immersive theatre and installations at music festivals including Boomtown, Wilderness, Secret Garden Party, and Green Man. Through this work he has become interested in how voices can be trained specifically for the immersive theatre sector.
Jake’s creative and teaching practices are unified by a commitment to embodied exploration, clarity in text, and vocal freedom, scaffolding rigorous technique with a diversity of methods.
Teaching Area: Voice and Text, Poetry, Vocal Anatomy, Political Speech
Qualifications
MA Voice Studies, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
National Diploma in Acting, The Oxford School of Drama