Liz Mills is a voice practitioner and theatre director. A long academic career in the Drama Department at the University of Cape Town provided the context for extensive postgraduate research in voice, international publication and the development of her own techniques for working creatively with the voice. She is a recipient of the UCT Distinguished Teacher Award. In 2007 she was invited to take her voice research to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. The work has also been shared with colleagues in the USA and elsewhere in the UK. She contributes to the theatre and performance research at the University of the Witwatersrand and is involved with the GIPCA Emerging Director’s Bursary a programme that supports the development of theatre practice in South Africa. Her directing work includes Shakespeare’s King Lear, Susan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood, Chekhov’s The Seagull and Martin Crimp’s Attempts on her Life.