2024 Adjudicators

Renée is a vibrant performing arts professional with twenty-five years of diverse performing, teaching, writing, and directing experience from the stage to film and television. Creative opportunities as a performer, teacher, and director have taken Renée all over the UK, London's West End and off West- End, Europe, Canada, Korea, Central Asia, and many other inspiring places. As a dual citizen of UK and Canada, Renée spent most of her early years as a professional performer in the UK (D'Oyly Carte, English Touring Opera, Arcola Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Canterbury Cathedral) while also maintaining a position on the voice faculty at Canterbury Christ Church University; where she taught and coached on both the classical and musical theatre/CCM music degree programs. Projects during the pandemic saw Renee remotely direct and coach singers situated across the globe in several remotely filmed operas (COSA Canada) and continue to teach her international roster of students online. In 2022, she became an RBC Artist Mentor with the Association for Opera in Canada, continued her work as a teaching artist with the Canadian Opera Company, was named Second VP of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Ontario Executive, was brought in as a Choral Clinician to the Durham Girls Choir, invited to guest coach/deliver masterclasses at the National Opera Studio (London, England), Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, University of Toronto, and Hart House Theatre, and she became a core faculty member on the Canadian Opera Company Summer Intensive (dramatic coaching). Upcoming engagements include: Adjudicating at festivals across Ontario, several projects as a Teaching Artist with the Canadian Opera Company (librettist/dramaturg/director/coaching and teaching dramatic integration), directing the junior and senior programmes for The Singer's Theatre Intensive, and the launch of The Drop-In and The Audition Clinic, two exciting new training programs for singing actors.