ABOUT

I am a dialect coach, Master Teacher of Knight Thompson Speechwork, DialectCoaches.com Verified Master Coach and 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.

I have coached a great many accents, dialects, and foreign languages, but my real expertise is in the sound systems of languages, and in the process of accent acquisition. The goal is always twofold: accuracy and authenticity in the target accent, and helping actors fully inhabit and embody speech patterns different from their own, in service of the character they are creating and the story they and the director are telling.