ABOUT
I am a dialect coach, a Master Teacher of Knight Thompson Speechwork, a DialectCoaches.com Verified Master Coach and a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. I work on set and off, for productions and for private clients, to help actors successfully realize the voices and accents of the characters they play.
Together with my colleagues Phil Thompson and Andrea Caban, I worked to develop the accent coaching methodology and the Teacher Certification course in Knight Thompson Speechwork, the gold standard in training for dialect coaches and speech/accent teachers. From 2010 to 2013, under Editor-in-Chief Dudley Knight, I was the Associate Editor for the “Pronunciation, Phonetics, Linguistics, Dialect/Accent Studies” section of the Voice and Speech Review, the peer-reviewed journal of the profession.
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My expertise is in the sound systems of languages and accents, and in a process of accent acquisition, allowing actors to inhabit—truthfully, accurately and fully—speech patterns different from their own.
Though I am deeply versed in and have coached a great many accents, this means that I can coach any accent and any language, and is also why you are much better off with a dialect coach than with an untrained native speaker of your target language or accent.