Alison Oddey
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Alison Oddey

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Alison Oddey is an author, voice artist, creative change‑maker, and coach with over three decades of experience, helping people develop, grow, and reconnect with their fullest potential. She is an NLP Coach, Master Practitioner and Trainer.

As a coach, Alison is known for her grounded, compassionate presence and her ability to create safe, expansive spaces for personal transformation. Her work blends poetic insight with practical guidance, offering a unique approach that is both emotionally resonant and deeply empowering.

She is an author of multiple books exploring the relationship between art, identity, and lived experience. She has held senior academic positions at six UK universities, including Professor of Theatre Studies and Visiting Professor of Visual Culture and Contemporary Performance. Her interdisciplinary research spans creativity, wellbeing, visual arts, cultural heritage, and human expression.

This is Alison’s 8th publication. Her 1st was ‘Devising Theatre’ in 1994, which led her to devising, writing and performing, including her one woman show, ‘A Gift for Eleonora’ at heritage and cultural sites in Italy and the UK. She has created site-specific performances and installations for Nature Connections, Art Out Loud and the Bath Literature Festivals. She has written, presented and interviewed guests for her BBC Radio 4 series, ‘Stand-ups and Strumpets’, which came after her ‘In Conversation Event with Brenda Blethyn and Meera Syal’ at the Royal National Theatre, London to launch her 2nd book, ‘Performing Women’.

Her 3rd book ‘Re-Framing the Theatrical’ explored the spiritual and meditative, the creative boundaries of making arts experiences, and to her choosing to create this innovative audiobook as a first person narrative, with a deconstructed soundtrack from an original song that has had multiple views on YouTube.

‘A woman’s take on how you create from a good, deep place.’ Jacq Burns, Literary Agent, Publishing Consultant, Author – Write a Bestseller, Founder – London Writers’ Club.
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