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Nina Rausch, Performer: I am happy to inform you that I am already on location in Nebraska shooting “April Showers.” I am very excited that I did get the role of Samantha, the one we were working on. I wanted to thank you for your help and I will keep in touch with you for further help in the future.
Mari Lyn Henry, Talent Manager/Career Coach and co-author of How to Be a Working Actor: You are a force of nature doing the good work.
Jen Larkin, Performer: I have the pleasure of recommending Amy Stoller as a superb dialect coach. I worked with Amy in preparation for Boomerang Theatre Co.’s Anna Christie, in which I played the title role. Her clear, concise instruction was exactly the boost I needed to feel more confident in attacking the text. Due to time constraints, we were only able to have one crash course session together – and she was amazingly helpful. She was kind enough to also follow up with me over the phone to be sure I was on task and answer additional questions. I look forward to working with Amy again in the near future!
Paula Hoza, Performer, The Memory of Water: Our lighting designer is a Scot who’s lived all over England and after the first read-through he said to me, “You must’ve lived quite a bit in the North Country. Your accent’s dead on.” So thank you, thank you, thank you!
Andrea Snell, Performer: The sketch with the Russian accent absolutely killed tonight! And I keep getting complimented on my Russian accent! Thank you!
Renée Brna, Performer, Coram Boy: I wanted to let you know that I got that part I auditioned for in Coram Boy. I’m understudying three leads and singing in the choir. Soooo … we’ll have to get together and do some more dialect work!
Kelly Diegnan, Performer, Across Dot Ave.: I got the pahht. Thanks for all your help with the Boston accent – I couldn’t have done it without you.
Charles Hagerty, Performer, My Beautiful Laundrette: Thanks for helping me out these past few weeks. I flew in to London yesterday and I wanted to tell you how it went – smoothly, to say the least. Rehearsals were no problem and the creative team and the rest of the cast were impressed. The director’s mother was watching the show wondering where the American was … no one on stage had an American accent! Meeting people after the performance, people would be surprised to hear me speak with an American accent. Again, thanks for all your help.
Karen Eterovich, Writer-Performer, Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical: The audience at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, England laughed hard and applauded and the picture taking session at the end of the show went on and on … Kudos to my co-director and dialect coach, Amy Stoller – the direction was complimented, the English dialects were complimented.
Ashley Snyder, Performer’s Mom: We had positive feedback about Dylan’s non-regional accent! When we told his new audition teacher (a casting director), he asked, “He’s from the South? Really?!” We told him about Dylan taking dialect lessons with you and he said, “It’s working.”
Matt Fischel, Performer, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Thank you again for helping me to refine and finesse the work on a German accent that I had done prior to our meetings. It made all the difference in letting me forget the dialect and focus on the intentions of Hans Bethe and the character work.
Amanda Quaid, Performer: Well, this is certainly a first. I just got a callback for a major film role I’m not even physically suited to – because the casting director was so impressed with my dialect work. She’s putting me on tape to take to LA so that she can remember it. Thank you for being such a strong ally in this very difficult assignment – you are a marvelous coach.
Monique Fowler, Performer, The Ladies of the Camellias: The Denver Center Theatre Company are offering me Duse! Thank you so much for your expert coaching in a subtle Italian accent. I was able to really get on top of it.
Karen Eterovich, Performer, 2005 Last Frontier Playwrights Conference: A thousand, thousand thanks for the help with the Mexican accent – I booked the job! I can hardly believe it! I am going to Alaska – all expenses paid!
Sean Sutherland, Performer, The Female Heart: I got the part of the Australian reporter. Your coaching was great!
Clayton Dean Smith, Performer, Outward Bound: I’ve just booked a role in Keen Company’s next play, Outward Bound, in which I will play an earnest Brit minister who’s lost his faith. I could never have done it without your help.
Jurian Hughes, Performer, Rutherford and Son: Amy was the dialect coach on Rutherford and Son, a play I did at the Mint Theatre, and she miraculously managed to teach the cast what is definitely the trickiest dialect I’ve ever had to learn! (Geordie, it’s called. Northeastern England.) She was thorough without being invasive, and her dedication was evident in the abundance of resources she made available to us.
Alice White, Performer, The Charity That Began at Home: We have gotten all favorable reviews … I am very grateful to have been singled out at all, since the role is the smallest one I’ve played in three decades! “Particularly effective is Alice White as the pompous Miss Triggs (she found a marvelously affected accent that telegraphs the worst of her character’s faults instantly).” (Accent compliments of our dialect coach, Amy Stoller!)
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