Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact – it is silence which isolates.
Thomas Mann
stoller system
dialect coaching & design
by amy stoller
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Amy Stoller is an award-winning dialect coach based in New York City.
She teaches accents and dialects to performers, and American English speech and diction to non-performers.
If you’re a producer or director, she’ll guide your cast in creating a consistent vocal world in support of your production.
If you’re a performer, she’ll help you hone your ability to “suit the word to the action.”
If you’re a non-performer, she’ll help you develop a readily understandable speech that improves your chances of employment or promotion.
New to dialect coaching, or just new to Stoller System? Please read the FAQ.
May 2010: Flora, an Opera at Spoleto Festival USA.
Flora, an Opera, dress rehearsal at the Dock Street Theatre, courtesy of WDAVfm.
See me in action: I guide Lancashire-born Slate editor June Thomas in How to Sound Like an American.
how to use this website
There are links in the navigation bar on the left of each page, and also at the bottom of each page. Please
if you find a broken link! To learn more about me and what I’ve done so far, click on Biography & Credits. To find out more about the services I offer, click on Services. To see what others think of my work, click on Critical Praise. For what’s new in my career or this website, look just below this “how-to.” And for articles, tips, and other fun stuff, please visit the Gallimaufry. New to dialect coaching, or just new to Stoller System? Please read the FAQ.
latest news
Current theatre project: Dialect Designer and Dramaturge for Wife to James Whelan, by Teresa Deevy, at the Mint Theater. Previews start July 29, 2010; Opening Night, August 23. Performances through September 26.
In the news—the NY Daily News, that is: I am quoted in an article on the so-called Queens accent (not to be confused with the Queen’s English, of course).
Recent theatre project: Dialect Designer for Neither Heaven nor Earth. June 11-26, 2010, off-off-Broadway. Accents: Palestinian, Egyptian, Israeli, and non-regional American. Languages (other than English): some Hebrew and Arabic. First languages among cast members include Arabic, Bosnian, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and American English.
Recent theatre project: Coaching George Morfogen in a Viennese accent for his title role in Freud’s Last Session, July 7–18, 2010 at Peterborough Players, New Hampshire.
Recent seminar: “Love Your Speech & Fix It, Too: How to Love Your Accent and Build Your Speech Repertoire” at the NY SAG Conservatory, June 18.
Recent workshop: Yiddish-accent workshop for costumed interpreters at the New York City Tenement Museum, June 14.
Recent opera project: Diction Coach for Flora, an Opera. May 29–June 12, 2010, at Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC. Directed and designed by John Pascoe; composed and conducted by Neely Bruce. Accents/dialects: Somerset and Received Pronunciation (upper-class English). Nice review in the New York Times.
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