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ACTRA Dialect Coach Toronto:
Accent Training for Actors
Preparing for a role and need an experienced accent coach in Toronto? Dialect coach Jay Miller can help an actor acquire any foreign or regional accent, including British (Received Pronunciation), Southern American, New York, and General (Midwest) American dialects.
As an ACTRA dialect coach (sometimes called a dialogue coach in Toronto), Jay has worked with numerous TV and film producers that understand the need for convincing accents. A few stereotypic sound substitutions were once sufficient to identify a character's nationality. But today's audiences are too diverse and sophisticated to be persuaded by such generalizations. Actors must reproduce an accent with enough accuracy to be believable, and enough clarity to be understood.
Speaking with a dialect is not just a matter of making the right sounds. It involves auditory considerations (e.g. melody, rhythm and sound substitutions), physical considerations (e.g. posture and gesture) and character considerations (e.g. gender, social status, and education). Dialect training will enable you to identify important characteristics of an accent, to hear and feel how they differ from your normal speech patterns, and to reproduce those qualities accurately and consistently. Mastering a number of dialects broadens your options as a competitive performer, and provides you with the tools to address new accent challenges as they arise.
So whether you need to improve a Spanish dialect for an audition, or want to dust off a previously-learned Irish accent for an upcoming part, you're sure to benefit from the experienced ear, clear instruction and supportive coaching style of Toronto dialect coach Jay Miller.