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Ditte Berkeley-Schultz
Ditte Berkeley-Schultz (DK/UK) was brought up in Spain and graduated from Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London in 2001. She has since been a leading actress and co-creator in Teatr ZAR theatre company, based in Wrocław, Poland. She performs in most of Teatr ZAR’s performances and has taken part in their numerous expeditions since the company was founded. Performances include the triptych Gospels of Childhood, Caesarean Section, Anhelli. The Calling and their latest production, Armine, Sister. She has been a researcher in the field of voice at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław since 2006. As well as being a theatre practitioner, she was initiator and artistic director of the cyclical VoicEncounters festival in Wrocław. In 2009, she was co-organizer of the international Festival ‘Giving Voice’, in collaboration with CPR (Wales). She has collaborated with Studio Matejka during the research period of 2010–13 as voice supervisor and trainer. She leads various workshops with Teatr ZAR, such as ‘Into the Sound’, and is currently engaged in the vocal research line of the BodyConstitution programme at the Grotowski Institute. In 2017, she initiated regular work sessions, entitled ‘Voicycles – A Rite of Voice’, for non-performers dedicated to awakening consciousness of the use of voice as a tool for expression in our everyday life. She is currently working on a series of work demonstrations together with Mahsa Vahdat about how invaluable a tool songs of tradition – in this particular case Persian singing – can be to actors searching to expand their vocal development.