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Fiona was born in Windsor, Berkshire, and after reading English at King's College, London, she trained as an actress at the Oxford School of Drama. While at drama school, her roles included Hedda Hedda Gabler, Goneril King Lear, Ernst Robel Spring Awakening, Andromeda The Trojan Women and a Voluptuous Concubine The Arabian Nights.
Other acting roles for drama school include Laura Lark Rise (New End Theatre, Hampstead), Emma Betrayal (Aldwych Theatre) and Giuseppina The Rose Tatoo (The Old Fire Station, Oxford). |
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| Outside of drama school, Fiona has played Antigone Antigone (Avondale Theatre, London) and, keeping up the classical Greek theme, she embarked on a project with the Thiasos Theatre Company, playing one of the small chorus of Noblewomen in Hippolytos; this entailed singing the choral odes in the ancient Greek while executing complex Javanese dance routines. She was trained by Untung Hidayat (Javanese dance) and Margaret J Coldiron (mask work). This project formed part of the Cambridge Classics Triennial exploring ancient Greek theatre practice, and was also part of the Interface Festival of Intercultural Arts at the Camden People's Theatre, as well as being made into a short film.
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Since 1997, Fiona has also been training in opera (see under opera) and this has led to opera and music theatre engagements; the latter includes Frederika A Little Night Music (rehearsed reading Pigott's Music Studios), May Queen Merrie England (Guildford Opera Company), Emily The Hired Man (Imperial Opera Company), Clara A Christmas Carol (MCN Productions) and Eliza/various Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Far and Middle Eastern tour of an American musical compilation). She has also appeared in the Channel 4 television opera "When she died... death of a Princess".
Skills include opera singing (soprano), Russian and Spanish Nineteenth Century period dance (Die Fledermaus) and elementary jazz dance (Bet Your Bottom Dollar).
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