Jocasta Roper

Education

Actress and Bel Canto trained soprano (three and a half octaves: F3 to A7)

Began singing at the age of nine - 11 choirs, four within Redbridge music school and part of Philharmonia for four years.

Took singing lesson from the age of 16 and competited solo in the Stratford Music Fesitival four times; winning first place in two catagories - Folk songs and 'Songs from the Show'.

Trained at the London College of Music (LCM); BMUS (Hons) 2:1 degree, in Music Performance (voice)

Training with Sandra Scott Singing Studios since 2014.

Acted from a young age: local pantomime from age 7 to 13, drama clubs and graduated from London Actor's Workshop (LAW) in 2022 (foundation and advance courses); has appeared in two short films (2019 – 2020) and one web series with IMDB credit (2022)

About myself

"You belong on the stage!" -- something a classmate once said to me at university and many others before.... Not going to lie, I agree.

I love performing, always have. From a very young age, I decided I want to be an actress and a singer, because I realised two things:
I enjoyed doing both (preferabley at the same time) and I was good at both -- two of my stapel rules for life: doing what you love and what you're good at; acting and music have always been two of my biggest passions and callings.
I love the stage and I am also open to performing within other mediums: film, televison, online -- anywhere I can perform and create.

As a singer, I've always loved singing any song I could get my teeth into and never liked to limit myself to one genre – I took up classical training, being told that it would teach the fundamentals of technique, which would help keep my voice strong and healthy. This is true, but I always ventured to listen to any other genre of music. This has been a great teacher, to me. Listen and learn is basic first nature of most musicians: we hear a song, pick up the melody by ear and sing it, or play it -- simple! (with the exception of musicians like Dame Evelyn Glennie -- percussionist, from Scotland. She's deaf and plays by feeling vibrations through the ground.)

Have sung and tried many styles in the classical, tradional and contemporary worlds of music, I've finally found my own style as a singer and performer. I will continue to sing as many genres as I can, because they challenge me -- each has something different to teach me, as I continue to grow and change as a singer and performer.

As an actor, I seek out any role which which demonstrates intelligence, charisma and eccentricity; the really interesting characters for me are the support roles who steal the show – quirky, colourful characters that require expression and a voice that can hit the back of the room! I long characters such as Ariel from The Tempest and can't wait to play a magical creature on stage or screen!