Amy Stoller ★ Dialect Designer & Dramaturge Suiting Words to Actions Since 1995 917-319-7448 ★ amystoller@stollersystem.com ★ www.stollersystem.com
oobr award
The best dialect work in New York!
For Personal Contribution to Excellence
—Leslie Hoban Blake, Two on the Aisle
in an Off-Off-Broadway Theatrical Production (Northanger Abbey)
FILM & TELEVISION Selma ★ Carmen Ejogo, NAACP Image Award, Black Reel Award
Coretta Scott King idiolect (individual speech pattern)
Nurse Jackie (Season 7, Episode 11, “Vigilante Jones”; Showtime)
Norwegian language (Betty Gilpin); Kutchi language (Purva Bedi)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)
On-camera Scottish accent coach for James Poyser of house band The Roots for “Suggestion Box” skit.
Mozart in the Jungle (Season 2, Episode 9; Amazon)
Multicultural London English (American actor Luke Rampersad)
Power (Season 3, Episode 1; Starz)
American (Australian actor Callan Mulvey)
Let Me Down Easy ★ Anna Deavere Smith (PBS Great Performances)
19 idiolects (individual speech patterns), including Lance Armstrong, Lauren Hutton, Gov. Ann Richards, Joel Siegel (full list on request)
YoungArts MasterClass ★ Anna Deavere Smith (HBO)
Speech coach (also on-camera)
Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! (Nickelodeon)
English; French; German, Egyptian Arabic
London Wall (WNET-Thirteen inaugural production, Theater Close-Up)
London middle-class, Cockney, RP
The World Wars (History Channel)
French; German; Russian; Italian
WWII in HD (History Channel) ★ Justin Bartha
German
Law and Order: SVU, “911” (NBC) ★ Emmy Award, Mariska Hargitay
Writers’ consultant for Hondureñismos, used to construct major plot point
BROADWAY Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Stephen Sondheim Theatre) ★ Tony & Drama Desk Awards, Jessie Mueller
New York accents for Jessie Mueller (TONY AWARD as Carole King) and Jake Epstein (as Gerry Goffin)
RESIDENT DIALEC T DESIGNER, Mint Theater Company, New York, NY Over 25 productions since 1996, including: The Suitcase Under the Bed: four short plays by Teresa Deevy (in rehearsal)
Irish (various); also dramaturgy)
The Lucky One (current)
RP, London; also dramaturgy
A Day by the Sea ★ NY Times Critics’ Pick ★ Ten Best of 2016: Wall Street Journal
RP, Scottish; also dramaturgy
Women Without Men ★ Five Drama Desk nominations, two Lucille Lortel nominations, Off Broadway Alliance nomination
Irish (various), French, RP; also dramaturgy
London Wall ★ Drama Desk & Lucille Lortel Nominee; NY Times & Time Out New York Critics’ Picks
RP; London Middle-Class; Cockney; also dramaturgy
The Teresa Deevy Project: three full-length plays including Wife to James Whelan ★ Time Out New York & New York Magazine Critics’ Pick
Co. Westmeath (Irish Midlands); also dramaturgy
The Fifth Column ★ World Premiere by Ernest Hemingway
Spanish (Madrid; Asturias; Andalusia)
The Madras House
RP; London; devised French-Cockney hybrid; also dramaturgy
The Daughter-in-Law ★ Drama Desk Nominee; NY Times Critic’s Pick
Ilson (Mining Dialect of Erewash Valley in English Midlands); also dramaturgy
WITH ANNA DEAVERE SMITH Notes from the Field (Second Stage, NYC; preceded by ART, Cambridge, MA). Previous edition: Berkeley Rep and touring.) ★ Lucille Lortel Award for Solo Show; Obie Special Citation; NY Times Critics’ Pick ★ Best Theatre of 2016: NY Times, Time, Vulture, TimeOut NY, NorthJersey.com, Towleroad; BuzzFeed; The Forward; WBUR; Theater Pizzazz
17 idiolects (individual speech patterns), including speakers from New Jersey; Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; North Charleston & Richland County SC; Stockton, CA; Puerto Rico; El Salvador; Yurok Tribe, others.
Let Me Down Easy (Second Stage, NYC; National Tour; preceded by World Premiere, Long Wharf, New Haven, CT, others) ★ NY Times Critics’ Pick
20 idiolects, including Lance Armstrong, Eve Ensler, Lauren Hutton, Gov. Ann Richards, Joel Siegel, others.
Talking About Race (Public Theater, NYC; Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO)
Four idiolects: Lorraine Hansberry, Mike Wallace, Margaret Mead, James Baldwin
Watching Wilson and Watson (World Science Festival, NYC)
Two idiolects: James Watson and E.O. Wilson
On Grace (San Francisco; Chicago)
Various idiolects, including John Lewis; Sandra Day O’Connor; Rev. Jane Shaw
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Amy Stoller ★ Suiting Words to Actions since 1995 917-319-7448 ★ amystoller@stollersystem.com ★ www.stollersystem.com OTHER WORLD PREMIERES The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence (Playwrights Horizons, NYC) ★ Pulitzer Finalist for Drama
Cultivated New England; RP; character voice differentiation
A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT) by Paula Vogel; dir. Tina Landau
American northern and southern accents for Caucasian and African-American characters; German & Hebrew (Ashkenazi) pronunciation
Coming Home (Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT) by Athol Fugard
Cape Coloured (Afrikaans)
Agnes Under the Big Top (Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT) by Aditi Brennan Kapil
Liberian; Bulgarian; Indian
Flora, an Opera (Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC)
Rural 18th-century Somerset; Old-fashioned RP
Cheer from Chawton (NYC; US/UK Tour; also Co-Director)
Individual character voices with various English accents
The Brightness of Heaven (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC; remounted as For Heaven’s Sake! at 710 Main, Buffalo, NY)
Buffalo, NY
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS The Traveling Lady (Cherry Lane Theatre/La Femme, NYC) by Horton Foote, dir. Austin Pendleton
Southeast Texas; also dramaturgy
The Miss Education of Jenna Bush (Fringe NYC) ★ Melissa Rauch ★ Fringe Award, Outstanding Solo Show; Theatermania Audience Favorite Award
Dallas
Devil Boys from Beyond (Fringe NYC) ★ Fringe Award, Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play
Mid-Atlantic (1930s movie star)
SELEC TED AC C ENTS & DIALEC TS USA: SOUTH including Appalachian, New Orleans Lower Garden District, Mississippi Delta, Tennessee Mountain, East Texas & Texas Cotton Country (Caucasian & African American), Richmond, Virginia • MIDWEST including Chicago, Minnesota, Wisconsin • NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA including Jewish, Irish, Italian, Nuyorican • NEW ENGLAND including Southie, Boston Brahmin, Fremont (NH); Roe Dylin, Downeast Maine • Buffalonian (Buffalo, NY) BRITISH ISLES: ENGLAND including Received Pronunciation (Old-Fashioned, Traditional, Conservative Upper-Class English, sometimes called “Standard British”); Contemporary RP; Estuary English; Cockney; Multicultural London English (MLE); London Suburban Middle-Class; Scouse (Liverpool), Geordie (Newcastle), Yorkshire, Lancashire, other Northern and Midlands English; Southwestern English (Somerset, Devon, Wiltshire) • IRELAND including Dublin, Co. Cork, Irish Midlands, Anglo-Irish, Co. Down, Co. Mayo • SCOTLAND including Glasgow, Aberdeen • WALES EUROPEAN: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish; Bulgarian; Czech; Dutch; Polish; Portuguese; Serbian; Swedish; Yiddish CARIBBEAN: Bajan (Barbados); Trini (Trinidad) AFRICAN: SOUTH AFRICA including Afrikaans, Cape Coloured, White Urban English • Egyptian Arabic; Liberian; Rwandan; Kambawean (devised accent for fictional country) OTHER: Armenian; Australian; Dari (Afghan Persian, Farsi); Indian; Iraqi; Israeli; Japanese; Mexican; New Zealand; Palestinian Arabic; “Pirate” SOME PEOPLE I’VE WORKED WITH AC TORS:
Jessie Mueller, Tony Award-Winner as Carole King in Beautiful: the Carole King Musical, and co-star Jake Epstein as Gerry Goffin. Work regularly with National Humanities Medalist Anna Deavere Smith as her dialect coach, and as faculty with her in classes and workshops. Also Jordan Baker, Justin Bartha, Whitney Bashor, Purva Bedi, Matt Bogart, Colman Domingo, Carmen Ejogo, Lou Ferguson, Peter Friedman, Betty Gilpin, Kimiko Glenn, Cynthia Harris, Tom Hewitt, Jonathan Hogan, Robert Hogan, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Laurie Kennedy, Karl Kenzler, Kevin Kilner, Roberta Maxwell, Adrienne C. Moore, George Morfogen, Annette O’Toole, Melissa Rauch, Roslyn Ruff, Wrenn Schmidt, Dylan Riley Snyder, Dale Soules, Frances Sternhagen, Karen Ziemba.
DIREC TORS:
Jonathan Bank, Hal Brooks, Marc Bruni, John Ealer; Gordon Edelstein, Leonard Foglia, Leah C. Gardiner, Gus Kaikkonen, Tina Landau, Brian Murray, John Pascoe, Austin Pendleton, Martin L. Platt; Eleanor Reissa, Kirk Simon & Karen Goodman, J.R. Sullivan, Jenn Thompson, Eric Ting, Ludovica Villar-Hauser.
UNIONS & PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OFFICER: Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) • ASSOCIATE EDITOR: International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) • BOARD OF ADVISORS: The Shaw Project • MEMBER: Women in the Arts & Media Coalition; League of Professional Theatre Women; Theater Resources Unlimited; Actors’ Equity Association; SAG-AFTRA BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! Faculty positions, workshops, seminars, presentations, publications, dramaturgy, other offerings: on request
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Last updated: June 29, 2017