Geraldine is currently Head of Voice in the School of Drama at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia.  Geraldine's experience as a teacher, actor and youth theatre director spans over 25 years in London and Melbourne. She trained in London at Middlesex University where she completed her degree in drama and education and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she obtained a Licentiate in Voice and Speech. Further training was augmented with Patsy Rodenburg, Prunella Scales and Cicely Berry in London. Geraldine has a Masters in Education from Melbourne University.

In London she worked as a drama teacher and a youth theatre director working on community and education based productions at the Half Moon and Curtain Theatres.  In Melbourne, Geraldine developed, implemented and taught community based performance training for the TAFE system at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE and Swinburne University and inaugurated a training company developing theatre in education productions for people with disabilities.   Geraldine has performed in productions at La Mama, Universal, Atheneum and Anthill.  Recent voice-over work has included a soundscape for the Melbourne Immigration Museum and a travelling exhibition for the centenary of Federation.

Geraldine’s freelance work includes working as a voice and communications consultant for the corporate and government sectors, specialising in working with people from a non-English speaking background. She specialises in accents and dialects and is an Australian associate editor for the accent and dialect website located at Kansas University.   Geraldine works as a vocal/dialogue coach for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, ABC and SBS and her most recent film work included "Ned Kelly".   In 2006 Geraldine received an Australian Research Council Grant in collaboration with the Dept. of Otolaryngology and Cochlear Ltd. to research the effect of actor voice training on young people who use cochlear implants and hearing aids.