Nanette Ackerman

NANETTE ACKERMAN, BA, LLAM.

Nanette Ackerman (Berry) was born in Cambridge in 1945. She attended stage school as a young girl and spent a brief spell as a singer. Many years later, after training as a nurse, she studied LAMDA exams at the Hartley-Hodder School of Speech and Drama in Clifton, Bristol. As a licentiate of London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, she has worked as a director and speech and drama teacher, helping many young actors with their careers in theatre and film.

Nanette loves animals, nature and literature - particularly Shakespeare and the Romantic poets. She attempted her first play when she was ten. She subsequently produced several plays at theatres in the West Country, including the Little Theatre - Bristol, the Playhouse - Weston-Super-Mare and the Rondo in Bath. Her spectacular children’s play, Perils of the Pond, starring Tom O’Connor, was published by Bohemia in 1991. In addition to this, she has given regular poetry readings on behalf of her father, Charles Ackerman Berry, whose colourful childhood is remembered in her book, Alias Richard Lee: Pictures of a Chaplin Actor (Redcliffe Press, Bristol).

Currently in demand for dramatic readings and talks related to her well-received book, Nanette is kept busy writing and teaching speech and drama.