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.
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. If you are a new client, please read the FAQ. 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.
latest news
Recent workshop: I conducted a two-hour workshop, “Put the Accent on Acting,” at the SAG NY conservatory.
Recent television project: Coached ADR session in German and regular recording session in RP for Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer.
Private coaching: Lots of appointments recently for private coaching in Geordie, the accent required for Billy Elliot the Musical. I coached this accent up and down the class scale in Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son at the Mint Theater in 2001, collecting my own authentic native-speaker samples in the process. If you need expert guidance in Geordie, or call 917•319•7448 right away!
Publication: Mari Lyn Henry’s interview with me appears in the fifth edition of the essential industry guide How to Be a Working Actor, by Mari Lyn Henry and Lynne Rogers.
Recent theatre project: Mint Theater Company’s production of Ernest Hemingway’s The Fifth Column, directed by Artistic Director Jonathan Bank. Through May 18, 2008.
Earlier this season: Dialect Coach to Anna Deavere Smith for her new one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy, directed by Stephen Wadsworth. World Premiere; Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT.
Ongoing theatre project: Co-Director (and Dialect Designer) of Cheer From Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical, a touring play by writer-performer Karen Eterovich. The hit of the 2006 Jane Austen Festival in Bath made a triumphant return to England in 2007, together with Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn & Her Pen, for which I am the Dialect Coach. Check the calendar for upcoming bookings of both shows.
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