Penny O'Connor and Lee Warren
Would you like more books in your life? Would you like to meet the person who wrote that book you like? Our series of talks with authors of books relevant to the Alexander Technique community might let you do just that!
Sunday 13 JUNE 2021 at 8AM UK Time zone
We are happy to welcome Penny O'Connor and Lee Warren.
Lee Warren will be talking about his book The Busy Person's Guide To Great Presenting.
Penny O'Connor will tell us about her brand new book, Alexander Technique for Actors, a practical course.
After each talk, there will be a Q&A session with the authors. If you can't attend, please feel free to send your questions by email, we'll ask them for you and you can see the reply in the recording. You can also have an informal chat during the breaks in the breakout rooms. Bring your cup of tea and catch up with your friends and colleagues or meet new pals!
Programme outline:
- 8am: Penny O'Connor
- 8.35am: Breakout room chat
- 8.50am: Q&A
- 9am: Lee Warren
- 9.35am: Breakout room chat
- 9.45am: Q&A
- 9.55am: Wrap up, conclusions, and information about the next AUTHORS session!
A recording will be available until 17 July 2021.
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Authors - The Not Your Usual Bookclub runs online every two weeks. It's open to everyone - all teachers, pupils and friends. There's a small charge of €6 a session or €20 for the 4 sessions (live and recorded) in each season.
We hope you can join us!
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If a difficult financial situation keeps you from attending, please get in touch by emailing for a complimentary ticket at authorsat@gmail.com. We'll be happy to have you on board.
More info at https://www.alexanderschool.edu.au/authors
More about Penny O'Connor
I am a member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
Before training as an Alexander teacher, I worked for ten years as a performer/writer/director and taught drama and special needs in secondary schools. After my training I assisted the training of other teachers at the Centre for Training in North London and set up a consultancy Awareness and Development to take the Technique into the workplace, organizing workshops and conferences, focusing on practical research on RSI. I still work in corporations to assist in postural alignment at the workplace.
I then returned to my first love of theatre, working with BA and MA acting and musical theatre students, and pupils from the 6th form at the Arts Educational School London in Chiswick. I now work with opera students at Associated Studios, running a mentoring scheme for newly qualified Alexander teachers as they assist me in the classes. I have also worked for Graeae Theatre Company, teaching courses in voice and Alexander for disabled students; Mind The Gap; The Actors Centre; Theatre Royal Northampton, the London Musical Theatre School, and guest tutor at the Central School Of Speech and Drama film faculty..
I have taught and lectured internationally – Istanbul, New York, Haifa, Athens, Corfu, Thessaloniki and Paris. I have facilitated and organized drama conferences for STAT , given workshops for STAT, the Students Network, and at the International Congress of Alexander Technique in Oxford, Lugano and Limerick . I am the Assistant at the Queens Park Alexander Training School specialising in voice and am part of the faculty for The Performing Self, developing teacher skills working with performers. I run workshops for all levels on the Greek Island of Alonnisos during the summer. I teach privately in the City of London, Chiswick, Sevenoaks and in Alonnisos. Other interests include singing overtones, NLP, Reiki, Chi Kung, gardening, running and learning folk fiddle.
More about Lee Warren
Lee was a professional magician for 20 years, is a member of the world-famous Magic Circle and was described by Prince William as ‘absolutely amazing’. A lover of live theatre, Lee has written theatre works for The Almeida Theatre, and been a commissioned writer at The Royal Opera House. Fluent in Spanish, Lee is very good at playing the piano badly!
In a previous life, Lee was a sales director at News International and he now combines this background in magic, theatre and sales to give presentations, keynotes, workshops and coaching to firms including Deloitte, Shell, Laing O'Rourke, Roche, EY, Barclays Wealth and HSBC, helping people to become more persuasive and connected, sell more, present better and increase their ability to get their messages across confidently to colleagues and clients.
Over time, Lee was increasingly invited not just to perform magic to clients, but to speak at their events. Realising that this was his 'true niche', in 2010 he become a full-time conference speaker and workshop leader and since then has spoken all over the globe at hundreds of events.
In 2018, Lee's first book was published – ‘The Busy Person’s Guide To Great Presenting’. In March 2019, it was the highly-commended runner-up in the 'Business Book Of The Year Awards'.
He calls it his ‘first’ because he has four more planned in his head. Now, he just needs to find the time to write them