Coaching & Fees
No enquiry required to find out what it costs. Every fee below is what you actually pay — there is no registration fee and no hidden term levy. All coaching is delivered live online.
2026 fees
One-to-one on Teams. Eisteddfod pieces, monologues, auditions and prepared readings, taken from selection through to competition-ready polish.
Four to six learners, age-banded, meeting weekly on Teams. Confidence, voice, expression and scene work, building through the year.
A structured package for ATKV Redenaars, school public-speaking leagues and debating. The learner writes it; I teach them how.
What we work on
Voice, clear speech, imagination and beginner scene work for students finding their stage voice.
Polished coaching for poems, prose, monologues, prepared readings and performance pieces.
Focused one-to-one direction for monologues, school productions, festivals and prepared speeches.
Questions
Group classes run from Grade R upward, banded by age so learners work with their peers. Private coaching has no lower limit — I have prepared learners as young as six for their first eisteddfod item, and adults preparing for auditions or professional speaking.
No. The Confidence & Expression group assumes no background at all. If a student is nervous, that is usually the reason to start rather than a reason to wait.
For competition preparation, yes. An adjudicator watches a still, framed performance from a fixed distance — which is close to what a camera sees. Recording every session is a real advantage: the learner watches themselves the way the adjudicator did. What online will not give you is a full stage rehearsal with movement across a large space, and I will say so if that is what a piece needs. There is more detail here.
No, and be cautious of anyone who does. What I guarantee is that the piece will be well chosen, correctly timed, properly interpreted and performed to a standard that gives the student the best honest chance on the day.
It is a fair question and I take it seriously. I do not adjudicate any section in which a Fortitudo Studios learner competes, and I declare every coached learner to the organisers in advance. The full policy is published here.
Yes. Group fees are pro-rated to your start date. Private coaching can start as soon as there is a slot.
Yes — English and Afrikaans, including Afrikaans eisteddfod sections and ATKV Redenaars.
Everything is online for now. That is a deliberate choice, not a limitation: it keeps fees lower, removes travel for both of us, and means I can work with learners anywhere in the country rather than only in Gauteng.
Free download
The same checklist I work through with private students — piece selection, timing, entrances, projection, costume and nerves. Free, straight to your inbox.