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.
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 for Neither Heaven nor Earth. Limited run Off-Off-Broadway, June 11-26, 2010. Accents: Palestinian, Egyptian, Israeli, and American (type to be determined). 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: Dialect Designer for America Amerique, touring to various US locations. Seven actors, 14 accents and dialects—somehow accomplished in about a week! (Note: The promotional video does not show the cast I worked with.)
Recent theatre project: Dialect Coach for Amy Fitts as “Eloise” (French accent) in the Mint Theater Company production of So Help Me God, by Maurine Dallas Watkins (Chicago). Stars Kristen Johnson and Anna Chlumsky, with a wonderful supporting cast including many Mint regulars, Ms. Fitts among them. Directed by Mint Artistic Director Jonathan Bank.
Recent theatre project: Production Dialect Coach for Anna Deavere Smith in the New York premiere of Let Me Down Easy. Directed by Leonard Foglia. Extended twice, for the longest run the in history of Second Stage. Twenty characters, all real people, each with a completely individual speech pattern.
If you missed the show while it was in New York, you can see substantial excerpts from Let Me Down Easy as part of an interview on “Bill Moyers Journal”. (Part 2 begins here.) Or watch briefer excerpts from “The Today Show”.
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