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— Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Two on the Aisle

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who is amy stoller? what can she do for you?

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 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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selected credits

new york city

Second Stage: Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Leonard Foglia. Mint Theater Company: Resident Dialect Designer/Coach and occasional Dramaturge since 1996; production highlights include Wife to James Whelan (Back Stage Memorable Performance, Shawn Fagan);  The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (Drama League Award nominee Julia Coffey); The Madras House, featuring Roberta Maxwell, George Morfogen, Laurie Kennedy, and Jonathan Hogan; Soldier’s Wife (2006 Drama Desk Award nominee; dramaturgy only); Echoes of the War starring Frances Sternhagen and Richard Easton; The Daughter-in-Law (Drama Desk Award nominee); The Voysey Inheritance.  Keen Company: In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Pearl Theatre Company: Toys in the Attic (New York Times Critic’s Pick), directed by Austin Pendleton; I Have Been Here Before. Drama League DirectorFest: Six productions, most recently The Lover, by Harold Pinter. FringeNYC: The Miss Education of Jenna Bush, multiple award-winner starring Melissa Rauch. Summer Play Festival: How Love is Spelt by Chloë Moss. New York Musical Theatre Festival: The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. Distilled Spirits Theatre: Northanger Abbey (OOBR Award) and Innocent Diversions, both by Lynn Marie Macy.

television

Justin Bartha as Austrian Jack Werner in WWII in HD; numerous guest voice actors in Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!; Danny Teeson’s first speaking appearances as “Mr. Six” in the Six Flags commercials.

touring

Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Leonard Foglia; Doctor Dolittle; Cheer From Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical (Co-Director); Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn and Her Pen.

regional

World premieres of Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, Coming Home, by Athol Fugard, directed by Gordon Edelstein, A Civil War Christmas, by Paula Vogel, directed by Tina Landau, and Agnes Under the Big Top, by Aditi Brennan Kapil, directed by Eric Ting, all at Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT; Flora, an Opera, directed by John Pascoe and composed by Neely Bruce; new editions of Let Me Down Easy at American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA, and Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Austin, TX. Also Diana of Dobson’s, at Fairfield Theatre Company, Fairfield, CT; Freud’s Last Session (George Morfogen in title role), Educating Rita (title role); Hobson’s Choice; The Secret Garden, all at Peterborough Players, Peterborough, NH.

publications

Author, “The Value of English Money in The Voysey Inheritance,” in Harley Granville Barker Reclaimed (2007), Publisher: Granville Press; Author, “Teaching Consonants Through a Straw,” in Voice and Speech Review 6 (2009), Publisher: VASTA, Inc.; Author, “Marni Nixon: More Than You Know,” in Voice and Speech Review 3 (2003), Publisher: VASTA, Inc.; Author, Internet Resources for Voice and Speech Professionals, Publisher: VASTA, Inc.; Senior Writer, The New York Public Library Literature Companion (2001), Publisher: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster); Contributing Editor, Multimedia Hitchcock (1999), Film Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Books containing my articles can be ordered through the Bookshelf.

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