DIALECT COACHING
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If you are an actor looking to level up their career and work towards becoming a powerhouse ACCENT ACTOR, you need to start by mastering the skills needed for ANY accent! This is a six-session online Workshop that you will be able to take safely at home! Start now!
Top 3 Ways this Class Will Help You!:
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This six-session online class is broken up as follows:
- Session 1: Intro and Roadmap to Accent Skills Mastery, Your Preferred Accent, Mind/Body Flexibility and Awareness Exercises, Accent Identity Inventory
- Session 2: Vocal Anatomy Overview, Vocal Folds and Why You Can't Listen to Your Voice, The Alveolar Ridge and Your Teeth, The Jaw and its Muscles, The Lips, The Velum (Soft Palate) and Uvula
- Session 3: Sidebar of Questions and Undeniables List Exercise, Tongue Anatomy, Pancake & Hotdog Tongue, Arching and Cupping the Tongue, "Ewwww" Exercise, The Shaping Exercise (Phthonging)
- Session 4: The Vowel Chart, How to Target Shapes on the Vowel Chart...AND in Your Preferred Accent, Vowels (Shapes) and the American /r/, Vocal Tract Posture, Your Vocal Tract Posture- Hesitation Sound
- Session 5: Sidebar of Questions and Undeniables, What is a Consonant?, The Empty Chart: An Overview, Consonant Chart-The Physical Locations of Obstructions, Voiced and Unvoiced, Plosives, Nasals, Trills, Tap or Flap, Fricatives and Lateral Fricatives, Approximants, Lateral Approximants, Non-Pulmonic Consonants, Omnish Exploration
- Session 6: Intro to The Omnish Parliament, The Omnish Parliament-Speech Time!, Omnish to Somenish- Shrinking Our Possibilities Down Into a Language or Accent, Next Steps!
Chris is an experienced Dialect Coach with over 10 years' experience coaching actors in Film, TV, and Theatre. Actors he has worked with have appeared in HBO's Game of Thrones & Westworld, Scandal, The West Wing, The Crown, Doctor Who, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, American Horror Story, The Dark Knight Rises, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Peaky Blinders, and Agent Carter among many others.
He is a proud graduate of Harvard University's ART Institute and has received training from The Moscow Art Theatre School, the University of London, and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has taught at Harvard University, Harvard Summer and Extensions Schools, the University of Wyoming, the ART Institute, The Moscow Art Theatre School, Elysium Conservatory Theatre, AMDA, The Acting Matrix Conservatory, and Andrew Wood Acting Studio. He teaches from the perspective of both Fitzmaurice Voicework. and Knight-Thompson Speechwork , the gold standard in training for dialect coaches and speech/accent teachers.
He is a proud graduate of Harvard University's ART Institute and has received training from The Moscow Art Theatre School, the University of London, and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has taught at Harvard University, Harvard Summer and Extensions Schools, the University of Wyoming, the ART Institute, The Moscow Art Theatre School, Elysium Conservatory Theatre, AMDA, The Acting Matrix Conservatory, and Andrew Wood Acting Studio. He teaches from the perspective of both Fitzmaurice Voicework. and Knight-Thompson Speechwork , the gold standard in training for dialect coaches and speech/accent teachers.
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