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Vicki Carpenter

Vicki Carpenter is a British actress and director best known for her appearances as both Lulu and Rirette in Michael Almaz's Intimacy, a play based on the short story by Jean-Paul Sartre. She devised and performed at Keats House in Hampstead a one-woman show based on the life of Fanny Brawne, John Keats's fiancée. She collaborated extensively with the author John Symonds, completing and extensively adapting one of his late dramatic works, The Poison Maker, which she produced and directed at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, appearing in the role of Florence. Vicki Carpenter for many years ran summer schools in etiquette, dress and deportment at Lucie Clayton, a finishing school and business college in Chelsea. She is the founder and principal of London Voice Coaching, an elocution school based in Hampstead. She is married to the travel writer Robin Saikia and lives in London and Venice.