FRANCES BYRD
Actor
BIO
Frances Byrd is a Glasgow-based actor, voice actor, director and translator.Â
She has just graduated from Acting Coach Scotland's Full Time Professional Diploma, after being in two successful productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019. She took short courses and workshops at LAMDA and Shakespeare's Globe in London, and has an M.Ed. in English and Music.
She is the co-founder and artistic director of Maiden Thought Theatre, a multi-cultural company creating theatre in the Elizabethan tradition, which is based in Bremen, Germany. She has worked as a translator for television companies as she is bilingual in English and German.
TRAINING
January 2019 - December 2019
ONE YEAR PROFESSIONAL ACTING DIPLOMA FOR STAGE AND SCREEN
Acting Coach Scotland, Glasgow
2019
ONE WEEK INTENSIVE WORKSHOP ACTING FOR CAMERA WITH ADAM ROBERTSON
Glasgow
2019
ONE WEEK INTENSIVE WORKSHOP ACTING FOR CAMERA WITH PATRICK TUCKER
Glasgow
2014
SUMMER SHORT COURSE ACTING SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
LAMDA, London
EXPERIENCE (SELECTION)
February 2020
Jennifer (Lead) in "Bad Taste" dir. Julia Tirkkonen
SHORT FILM
August 2019
Arseen Debaillie (Lead) in "Leopold Vindictive" by Cecile Durel, dir. Olivia Millar-Ross
EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL
August 2019
Frau Haym (Supporting) in "Walls and Bridges" written and directed by Nick J. Field
EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL
May 2019
Mrs. Hale (lead) in "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, dir. Olivia Millar-Ross
SPRING THEATRE PROJECT AT SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE
May 2018
Alice Arden (lead) in "Arden of Faversham" by Anonymous, dir. Julia Arroja da Silva
MAIDEN THOUGHT THEATRE AT SCHNÃœRSCHUH THEATER, BREMEN
May 2017
Venus (supporting) in "Gallathea" by John Lyly, dir. Frances Byrd
MAIDEN THOUGHT THEATRE AT SCHNÃœRSCHUH THEATER, BREMEN
