Frances Ewington
AMRC, LMRC, RMT
ARMTA - Alberta Registered Music Teacher’s Association
VASTA - Voice and Speech Trainers Association
AACE - Association of Acting Coaches & Educators
Frances Ewington is an award-winning Speech Arts & Drama instructor with nearly three decades of teaching and professional training experience. She holds Associate and Licentiate diplomas in Speech Arts & Drama from the Mount Royal Conservatory (1997), where she was awarded the Love of Literature Scholarship and achieved the highest mark attainable in Associate Pedagogy. At the time, Frances was the first Speech Arts student in a decade to receive a Licentiate diploma from Mount Royal.
From 1997 to 2016, Frances was employed by the Mount Royal Conservatory as a Speech Arts & Drama instructor, teaching private lessons, group Speech Arts, and theory. In 2017, she opened her own private studio, where she continues to teach students of all ages and levels. Frances has been preparing students for RCM Practical and Theory examinations since 1997. In 2023, The Royal Conservatory of Music formally acknowledged Frances for 26 years of dedicated teaching within the RCM Certificate Program.
Her students have achieved exceptional success at the provincial and national levels. Over the years, many have earned Provincial Medals for highest RCM marks. In both 2024 and 2025, Frances’ students claimed the prestigious RCM National Medal. For over three decades, her students have performed at the Calgary Performing Arts Festival (formerly Kiwanis), earning countless awards and scholarships, including the highly respected Speech Association Rose Bowl. Since 2020, Frances’ students have consistently won every ARMTA Calgary Recital & Awards medal and scholarship for Speech Arts & Drama.
Frances is an active member of the Speech Arts & Drama community, regularly providing workshops, adjudication, and mentorship throughout Calgary. Frances currently teaches private studio lessons and is an instructor at Company of Rogues Actors’ Studio a post-secondary institution recognized by the Government of Canada that offers a two-year professional actor training program. Rogues Studio trains actors in voice, movement, scene study, film, voiceover, and Meisner Technique, drawing on the teachings of Constantin Stanislavski as interpreted by Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen. Frances teaches Voice for the Actor, Accents, and occasionally Essentials of Acting.
Her professional development includes extensive training with Theatre Alberta, the Registered Speech Teachers Association, the Canadian Society of Alexander Technique, the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, and Company of Rogues Actors’ Studio, VASTA, and Vibrant Voice Technique. Frances is a 2005 graduate of the Rogues Masterclass Program, with advanced training in Meisner Technique, stage, film, and directing. In 2013, she attended the prestigious Canadian National Voice Intensive at UBC, studying with eleven of Canada’s leading voice and movement practitioners, including VASTA Distinguished Member David Smukler. She is also trained in Embodied Practice, Syntonics, and Authentic Movement under the guidance of internationally renowned movement specialist Judith Koltai.
Aside from Speech Arts, Frances is a soprano singer, having sung with numerous choirs between 1990 and 2015, including Mount Royal Kantorei and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus. She is also a Yoga Alliance Certified instructor. Frances also worked as an Early Reading Interventionist for the Calgary Arts Academy.
Frances is a full member of ARMTA (Alberta Registered Music Teacher’s Association) and Past Chair of the Calgary ARMTA Branch. This means Frances is fully qualified in both performance and pedagogy as set out in the Society Act of ARMTA (1982) Chapter S-18 of the Revised Statues of Alberta (1980), and is insured under the ARMTA umbrella. Her Calgary Police background check is available upon request.
Actively participating in the performing arts requires all of our being. Those who learn through the arts do so in a fully immersed way. I am proud to be an arts teacher.