ON 2nd June 2025, I was invited to be a guest speaker on the panel of the 2nd Neurodiversity Conference at HMP Warren Hill, a familiar venue. With an audience of inmates, staff and professionals 100 hundred strong, it was clearly a very important and necessary event. Neurodiversity is of a high percentage in theContinue reading “Second Neurodiversity Conference”
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Prison, playacting and performing!
On March 19th, I returned to HMP Warren Hill to spend a day talking to prisoners about their experiences of prison life, from sentencing to release, and to understand some of the process, as well as hearing first-hand about their day-to day experiences. If you think that Warren Hill, a Category C prison, is anContinue reading “Prison, playacting and performing!”
CV, Reviews, and links to work: Virginia Betts.
Below is a comprehensive list of professional work, performances and writing: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) Acting and The Speaking of Verse and Prose, all grades to gold medal. 1981-1992. LAMDA teaching certificate. Winner of the Ironside-Wood Trophy for poetry, 1989. (Suffolk Music Festival) Certificate in Creative Writing, University college, Suffolk, 2011 Continue reading “CV, Reviews, and links to work: Virginia Betts.”
The past few weeks!
A quick update: here’s what I have been up to for the past few weeks. As you know, I played Mary Boleyn and Elizabeth Barton In The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey. Here are a couple more shots from that showing me as Mary Boleyn and a similar painting of her: After the showContinue reading “The past few weeks!”
My first time on a live Twitch stream for World Poetry Read Aloud day!
Just had a fantastic time on the twitch stream of ‘Sailing Ocelot’. What a fantastic host! She was generous enough to allow me to perform 4 of my poems which I think the audience enjoyed. I wish I had learned them all, as you can’t look at the camera properly when you read them, butContinue reading “My first time on a live Twitch stream for World Poetry Read Aloud day!”
another few reasons this is an auspicious day…
My son finished his Uni year 2. He is on for a first or high 2:1. That’s an amazing achievement. Well done Jacob Rush! My husband, no doubt, has helped some patients today. I have passed the first module of my Autism level 2 course. I have another acting job and begin to rehearse inContinue reading “another few reasons this is an auspicious day…”
New publications for the new year!
Hello and a happy new year to everyone. I ended a strange year with something positive – first I recorded my piece for a show on radio Suffolk which is connected to the Wolsey Writers. This project was about ‘Transformation Myths’ and my poem closes the show, along with an introduction to a song. It’sContinue reading “New publications for the new year!”
Tutoring
On many occasions I have been asked ‘What do you do for a living?’ and of course I reply I am a full time tutor. I certainly do it for a ‘living,’ and often people do not realise that it is my only career since I left full time teaching in a school. Many tutorsContinue reading “Tutoring”
Virginia Betts 