clients & cast members
We are using an Ozark Southern accent, but it is an accent from 1913. Thankfully, Lynn Riggs was incredible at phonetically writing exactly how he wants you to pronounce things. In addition, we have an extraordinary dialect coach, Amy Stoller.
Richard Lear, quoted in DC Theater Arts
on Sump’n Like Wings
I work with a very good dialect coach named Amy Stoller.
I cannot tell you how many people thought I was really Italian. In fact, even my airbnb host from Italy who saw the show said I was thoroughly Italian as Eleonora Duse in Duet!
Cynthia Straus
When I am cast in a role with any sort of accent, I immediately reach out to the brilliant Amy Stoller for a session!
I booked Law & Order: SVU! You’re officially my good luck charm! [Thai accent]
I wanted to let you know that Barbara Rubin was so very happy with my dialect work for Blood Knot and thanks you tremendously. You taught me so very well. I truly feel that it is now a dialect that I master because of you. Thank you. Every South African that comes to the show REALLY thinks that I am a South African actor.
I got the Polish part on that feature Halal Daddy!!!!!! I've got work on it from May throughout June. We fooled them!! I can’t thank you enough!!!!
You may be as excited as I was to hear the director say to me today after the read through that my British was better than his! He‘s from London. Felt really great about that.
Booked *Mlima's Tale*! We did it!!! Thank you so much!!! Thank you for your guidance. You are da man!!!! [Vietnamese accent]
Amy Stoller’s knack for aural nuance in dialect has served me and my characters well. Her particular strength is that she works through the actor’s character to get to the voice therein. She works beyond regional dialect and drives straight for the individual within the words. Her professionalism and enthusiastic passion make for a most positive work experience.
I got that role for the workshop of Sting’s new musical, The Last Ship. They loved the Geordie!!! Thank you again for helping me.
I can’t even tell you how many compliments I’ve gotten on my Egyptian Arabic accent!
Leah nailed her audition for the film, and got another callback—this time to meet the directors. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP! Thanks to you, she had a good French accent, and enough confidence to let go during the audition and concentrate on the acting, not the accent.
Leah’s Mom
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!
Paula Hoza
I got the pahht [in Across Dot Ave]. Thanks for all your help with the Boston accent—I couldn’t have done it without you.
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 [with My Beautiful Laundrette].
We have gotten all favorable reviews [in The Charity That Began at Home] … 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!)
Alice White