Cathleen McCarron

For the National:

Cathleen McCarron is Head of Voice at the National Theatre.

Training

Cathleen McCarron holds an MA with Distinction in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, a BA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a first class honours degree in Politics from the University of Edinburgh.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Dear England (2025, 2023 and in the West End), Ballet Shoes, The Other Place for A Zeldin Company, Coriolanus, Mnemonic (2024, with Complicité), Nye (also Wales Millennium Centre), Till the Stars Come Down, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Confessions and The Motive and the Cue, Death of England: Closing Time and Romeo and Julie

Cathleen McCarron spent six years as resident Senior Voice and Text Practitioner at the RSC, and has also coached productions at the Young Vic, the Gate, Southbank Centre, Hampstead, Liverpool Everyman and the Great Theatre of China in Shanghai, as well as teaching voice, text and dialect across a range of acting conservatoires.

She has coached voice and presentation skills in a range of organisations in the UK and abroad and is a regular narrator of audiobooks, specialising in writers from her native Scotland.

(Updated March 2025)