Actors! Invest in Your Voice Training!

Arguably, your main instrument as an actor is your voice.

Having command over your voice WILL take your acting to the next level both on stage and on screen, and having a strong, flexible and open voice that you have control over will lead you to more roles and, better still, a wider range of rolls.

To begin with, it's imperative that you understand that your voice, movement and your acting are not three separate fields. They make up an intertwined and complex organism that work together to express the truth of the text, character and to tell story. (If you've worked with me, you would have heard my story about, I don't believe your knees, said to me during my training by the great Prunella Scales. Remind me to tell you one day if we are in a studio together.)

Everything we do comes back to our characters' one prime objective...to be part of, and to tell a STORY!

If you carry tension - You cannot utilise your voice to tell 'story' as affectively as you'd like to.
If you can’t be heard in a theatre - No-one will hear your characters' story. (Give the audience their money back!)
If you cannot use and manipulate you voice on mic/set - Your screen performance will could be one dimensional and bland.
If you lose energy at ends of your sentences - You lose the energy of the scene and can disrupt the entire production.

The Visitors. Comeout Festival South Australia — One of the best Aussie voices I've worked with, Nicholas Garsden (Right)

There are two ways and two ways only to develop your actors' voice...

A strong daily PRACTICE,

The only way to improve your voice is to work on it

If you don't have a daily vocal routine, BUILD ONE.
If you don't have anywhere to do your vocal work, do it in the shower!
If you read scripts, read them out loud.
If you don't understand the importance of voice work, read more about it, don't just take my word for it!
Combine your vocal work with your physical work.

and

Vocal TECHNIQUE.

it’s imperative to be using good techniques

There are amazing voice books, videos and free articles that have superb vocal exercise. Get a bunch of friends together and buy these book and google voice exercise on YouTube or in articles
Read the great vocal trainers. (My training at WAAPA was mostly Cicely Berry)
Find the great voice teachers in your city. (In Mumbai, track down Asif Ali Beg)
Try and avoid ONLY working in isolation. You need an experts ear to hear your voice. Your voice inside your head is completely different to the voice we hear coming out of your body.
Learn the mechanics of your voice. Start HERE
Get a group together and chip in to employ a voice coach for a session. (It's worth it)