Donna Soto-Morettini has worked as a professional singer and actress in Southern California and throughout the western United States. She holds a PhD from Oxford University and has been training professional singers and actors for 25 years. She has served as Director of Drama for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Head of Acting and Dance for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and Head of Acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Since 2006 she has worked as a Casting Director and Performance Coach for television for Andrew Lloyd Webber and the BBC. She is currently working for ITV's Pop Star to Opera Star and serves as Director of Performance for Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. She has been auditioning performers for over two decades and has written two books - Popular Singing for Methuen Drama and The Philosophical Actor for Intellect Books.