Louise Fryer

Dr Louise Fryer has a PhD in psychology and is one of the UK’s most experienced describers. She has described at the National Theatre since it started offering AD in 1993. She works with VocalEyes as a describer, trainer and editor. For the BBC, she helped develop the pilot TV Audio Description Service (AUDETEL). She has described films, was the accessibility advisor for the BAFTA-nominated Notes on Blindness (2016) and with Pablo Romero Fresco has written The Accessible Filmmaking Guide for the BFI (2018). She writes audio guides for museums and galleries and has worked with NDACA to make their collection accessible. She helps companies interested in developing integrated approaches, most recently Dante or Die and she has participated in Research and Development workshops around integrated access with the theatre company Vital Xposure and the project Empowering Shakespeare. She was a Senior Teaching Fellow at University College, London (UCL) and has been involved in a number of European Research projects. Her company Utopian Voices Ltd. was a partner in the Erasmus+ funded research project ADLAB-PRO (2016-19) creating an online curriculum and teaching resources for AD trainers. Louise is the author of An Introduction to Audio Description: A Practical Guide (Routledge 2016). Another book for Routledge, Integrated Access in Live Performance,co-written with Amelia Cavallo is based on research she carried out for Extant, the UK’s leading professional theatre company of visually impaired people. You can find an interview with her here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMynVewzoc