Event Notice-- How to Succeed in Accents and Dialects: An Evening with Award-Winning Dialect Designer Amy Stoller
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How to Succeed in Accents and Dialects:
An Evening with Award-Winning Dialect Designer Amy Stoller
March 21, 2011
7:00 pm
New York City
Need to prepare an accent for an audition “stat”? Or master a dialect for a production? Is an identifiably foreign or regional sound restricting your castability? Join Dialect Designer Amy Stoller for a discussion ranging from the difference between an accent and a dialect (and why it matters) to why “accent elimination” is a myth (and what really works instead). Acting through an accent or dialect can increase your range and opportunities. Join Amy to find out what you need to succeed. Q&A session, too!
Moderated by Paula Hoza
BIO
Amy Stoller is an award-winning dialect coach and sole proprietor of Stoller System, LLC. She has been Resident Dialect Designer/Coach (and occasional Dramaturge) at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theater Company since 1996. Most recently for the Mint she was Dialect Designer and Dramaturge for Wife to James Whelan. Other New York credits include Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy at Second Stage, and work with Origin, Pearl, Keen, Boomerang, and the Drama League DirectorFest, among many others. Regional work includes three world premieres at the Long Wharf, plus productions at A.R.T. and Peterborough Players. Television credits include WWII in HD, Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, and the speaking debut of “Mr. Six” in the Six Flags commercials.
Amy is an Officer of VASTA, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and Associate Editor for New York City at IDEA: the International Dialects of English Archive. More information at www.stollersystem.com
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