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— Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Two on the Aisle

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Amy Stoller 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 performing artist, she’ll help you hone your ability to “suit the word to the action.”

If you work in another field, she’ll help you develop a readily understandable speech that improves your chances of employment or promotion.

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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. 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 four world premieres at the Long Wharf, plus productions at A.R.T., People’s Light & Theatre, and Peterborough Players. Television credits include WWII in HD (Justin Bartha), 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. She sits on the Board of Advisors of The Shaw Project.

As an actor, Amy has played leading and featured roles Off-Broadway at the Open Space Theatre Experiment and Theater of the Open Eye, in numerous Off-Off-Broadway productions with companies including the New Rude Mechanicals (company member, two years), Distilled Spirits Theatre, Theater Ten Ten, and the Shaw Project; and in regional theatres including the McCarter Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Geva.

In related experience, she has been literary manager of an Off-Off-Broadway theatre company, casting director for a Brooklyn Shakespeare company and an American musical-in-progress, director of New York stage workshops and readings, and production manager of two original one-acts, which she shepherded from New York to Edinburgh. Along the way, she served as contributing editor for an interactive multimedia program in the film collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and as senior writer for a literary guide of which one critic opined, “This book could save your sanity.”

Amy began coaching accents and dialects informally when fellow students at an acting studio, impressed by her own dialect skills as an actor, asked her for help with their accents for classwork. Eventually, the head of the studio recommended her to a director as a Production Dialect Coach. The new venture resulted in a successful production, and in 1995 her coaching career was born!

 

 

 

 

 

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