Recent Productions- Anna in the Tropics with Tacoma Arts Live and Noel Coward’s Hay Fever, a Hall/Gingold Production.

Maybe dialects are a sticking point for you in your process, or maybe you have an audition coming up that requires you learn a new one. Sessions can also supplement the dialect work you’re already doing in a production you’re cast in. A coaching session can help you feel ready when you walk in the door (enter the Zoom room) for a callback or rehearsals.

Marianna also offers series of sessions geared towards giving you career-long tools for how to learn any dialect. The enhanced understanding voice & speech so we can truthfully inhabit a “new sound” on stage is an essential part of actor training for professionals.

Marianna has a degree in German and spent man years in Vienna, where, on a Teaching Fulbright, she taught topical ESL in high schools and tutored individuals. This background, in addition to her graduate acting training gives her a unique view into, and a great sensitivity around, the subject of dialects and accent modification. If you’re a non-actor interested in accent modification, click here.

“I was cast in a juicy comic role in a feature as a native German speaker, and I really wanted to nail it… Marianna...helped me polish up the entire performance… with notes, pronunciation guides, and a couple of recordings for reference. By the time I got on set, I was absolutely confident in my dialect.”
— Marty K, actor

A one-on-one session may include:

  • outlining the individual sound changes for a dialect

  • explanation and exploration of mouth posture, tongue position and more

  • listening to samples of native speakers

  • bring it to the text: coaching with a focus on character and story-telling, and how the dialect informs or is informed by these factors

  • recommendations on community & online resources

 

Individual or small group coachings available. Please use the contact Marianna form for consultation information,  rates and availability.

Select dialect coaching credits:

Chaldea(Web Series)- World of Chaldea dir. Peter Adkison December 2016, Relativity- Taproot dir. Scott Nolte September 2017, The Invisible Hand- ACT dir. Allen Nause September 2014, Angels in America (assistant coach)- Intiman dir. Andrew Russell July 2014, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay- Book-it Rep dir. Myra Platt July 2014, Carousel- 5th Ave (Rising Star Project) dir. Mat Wright February 2015, A Christmas Carol- ACT dir. John Langs December 2014, Appalachian Christmas Homecoming- Taproot dir. Scott Nolte December 2014, Lost in Yonkers- SPU dir. Candance Vance November 2014.

Individual or small group coachings available. Please use the contact Marianna form for consultation information,  rates and availability.