Dialect Coaching

I draw upon the music of the language to introduce foreign accents or regional dialects, or to minimize your personal accent or dialect as the role requires. Unless you come to me asking to neutralize your speech patterns, I look at the challenges of dialect work as an addition to your own speech and not to subtract your own individual voice. In adapting a new dialect or accent, you must hear the...
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Sound Design

My earlier career included sound and music design for hundreds of productions. My book, “Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art and Technique of Design” is considered ‘the bible’ by many working professionals, and is the companion publication to technical books for university and professional school studies. This collaboration with James LeBrecht was originally published in 1992 and is...
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