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 before completing an MA in Voice Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jake co-founded theatre company 6FootStories, which creates immersive theatre and installations at music festivals, and he has provided voice and dialect coaching for film, theatre and immersive theatre productions, including work with Netflix, Soho Theatre, Selladoor Worldwide, and Boomtown. His creative and teaching practices are unified by a commitment to embodied exploration, clarity in text, vocal freedom, and practical research into voice in immersive performance, scaffolding rigorous technique with a diversity of methods.
At Rose Bruford, he leads and coordinates voice teaching across BA Acting, BA Actor Musicianship, and BA Acting for Screen and Devised Performance, and has also led voice provision on BA European Theatre Arts (now BA International Acting Practices).