After reading English at Manchester University, Tamsin began her career in the BBC Radio Drama Department.  She then worked as a radio producer in the Independent sector at Unique Broadcasting, before going freelance.  She has extensive radio production experience – specialising in plays, readings and arts features, and working on both pre-recorded programmes and live broadcasts.   She is in great demand as a producer and director of audio books for major publishing houses, working with some of the finest writers and actors in the country.  She is a skilled and respected abridger of texts for audio recording, both for the commercial market and for the BBC, and an experienced script editor for film, stage and radio.

Tamsin is a radio teacher/director at several leading drama schools, most notably at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, for whom she has trained several teams for the BBC student Carleton Hobbs Radio Drama Bursary, with considerable success.  She also coaches actors privately in microphone technique and audition pieces and she trains Mountview’s entrants for the Hobson’s Voiceover Prize, winning the competition in 2009. ’Tamsin holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Theatre & Performing Arts from the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.

Tamsin started her singing career as the ‘tall’ half of cabaret duo ‘The Song and the Short and the Tall’, but soon crossed over into jazz, playing at key London jazz venues with some of the best musicians in the country.

She is also a successful lyricist/librettist, with five works commissioned for English National Opera and ‘Stand’ for Orlando Gough’s virtuoso choral group The Shout, which premiered in Trafalgar Square in August 2005 and featured at the BBC Proms in July 2006.  ‘Alligator Train’, was premiered at the end of May 2008. She also wrote lyrics for ‘Open Port’, by Orlando Gough and Jeremy Avis, which was the closing event of Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, composed for 750 singers, brass band, and wooden trumpets, and was performed in Stavanger Harbour in December 2008 before an audience of 35,000 people. After the premier of an original short opera ‘Professional Suicide’ at the Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House in January 2011, written with composer Evangelia Rigaki, Tamsin ran some songwriting workshops at the Royal Opera House and became involved in creating an original song cycle project for the ROH Education Department, working with jazz composer Peter Latenka and four Southend Primary Schools.  The piece, ‘Songs of the Marsh’, inspired by Paul Gallico’s story ‘The Snow Goose’, premiered on Two Tree Island in July 2011, to great acclaim.  A short feature on the production can be found on You Tube

Tamsin is represented by Nick Quinn at The Agency. tel: 020 7727 1346  e: info@theagency.co.uk