Speech and Drama section – Adjudicators

Adjudicator: Ann Warr, B.Ed.(Hons), LGSM, PGCA, Cert Ed., FRSA

Ann Warr has been involved with poetry and drama for most of her life. She first started working for the BBC at the age of nine, later becoming involved in professional theatre both onstage and backstage.

A teacher by profession, she has worked with all ages from pre-school children to students at a performing arts college in Liverpool. She also advises in the art of public speaking, finding work in the professional and business communities.

Work in Speech and Drama has taken her to many parts of the world, and she has adjudicated at festivals in England and Ireland, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Director, adjudicator, lecturer, teacher and examiner for Trinity Guildhall, London, Ann also “treads the boards” herself, being involved with plays from Shakespeare to pantomime. Autumn 2010, she directed an Alan Ayckbourn comedy, and was subsequently involved in the planning and production of an open air version of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ as artistic director of the play performed in Royden Park, Wirral.

Ann looks forward to visiting the Nuneaton Festival for a second year and to meeting all the people concerned – the performers and the ‘back stage’ workers.

She wishes everyone concerned a happy week and above all, she says, “enjoy yourselves and your work”.