About Nia

Nia Lynn is a voice, text and dialect specialist whose work runs from the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe to the National Theatre, the West End and major film and television. Over more than two decades she has become one of the people directors call when the text has to land, the accent has to hold and the cast has to feel safe doing it.

She joined the RSC's Text & Voice department in 2011 and was in-house voice coach until 2016, working on more than 28 productions including the original Matilda the Musical. She continues to work with the company, most recently on The Two Gentlemen of Verona and All Is But Fantasy. In 2026 Shakespeare's Globe named her a Globe Associate Artist in recognition of her contribution to the theatre's work.

Her stage work also includes the Old Vic, Donmar Warehouse, National Theatre, Bridge Theatre and the West End, and a long relationship with Welsh theatre as Voice Director for Theatr Cymru. On screen she coaches accent, dialect and voice for Netflix, the BBC, Sky and ITV, including Black Mirror, Pride and Prejudice, Doctor Who and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, where she coached the Welsh-language text.

Her approach treats the voice as a whole: breath, body, text and sound working together. She works quickly and calmly, in the rehearsal room and between takes, and adapts to the acoustic of each space, from a 1,000-seat house to a close-up.

Before voice, there was jazz. Nia trained as a singer at Guildhall and was nominated Jazz Singer of the Year in London in 2010. She has sung at Ronnie Scott's, the Barbican, the Royal Albert Hall, the London Jazz Festival and with Rambert as soloist in Ben Duke's Olivier-nominated Goat, built on the songs of Nina Simone.

She now sings with the award-winning Welsh folk band ALAW. That musician's ear runs through all of her coaching: rhythm, pitch, breath and the music in spoken text.