Actors: Do You Have an Accent?
Do people have a hard time understanding what you say because of your accent? Are you embarrassed to speak because you worry you won?t be understood? Is your accent holding you back from business opportunities? Most people who learn English as a second language aren?t taught the proper techniques to eliminate their accents. And many Americans have regional dialects that inhibit their ability to nail auditions. Master teacher and dialect expert, Eliza Jane Schneider, will give you the skills and techniques to eliminate your accent in an amazing eight-week course. The Accent Exchange allows you to work with American English speakers weekly to significantly reduce and even eliminate your accent.
How does The Accent Exchange work?
Lecture: Mondays 7-9pm.
A weekly lecture on the basic sound system of General American English
Lab: Saturdays 10am to 12noon.
A select group of actors will be admitted, by audition or interview, to the Accent Exchange Lab?an acting class designed specifically for work on accent reduction.
Private Diagnostic Session:
2 hour coaching session with Schneider wherein each student is provided with a personal template: a map of their specific mistakes when trying to speak General American English.
Practice with Native Speakers:
In addition to the class and lab, students will be paired up with American English speakers to work on their specific accent reduction exercises twice during the week, either in person, on the phone or via Skype.
When is the course?
July 10, 2010 - August 28, 2010
How many people are in the course?
Eliza will take no more than 30 people in the lab to make sure everyone gets enough time and attention to master the work.
Will I lose my accent in 8 weeks?
This is the only acting class designed specifically for actors who want to master their accents. If accent reduction is your focus, you may spend the entire 8 weeks mastering your General American speech. If you are able to master it quickly, you can use the skills you?ve acquired (International Phonetic Alphabet, Ear Training, Kinesthetic Exercises) to master additional accents.
Where is the course?
The Saturday lab will be held in Brentwood, and the Monday night lecture will be held at various locations throughout the greater Los Angeles area, in order to provide these tools to various communities & native speakers of various dialects around the city.
How much is the course?
Regular Price - $795
Early Bird Special - $595 if paid by June 30, 2010 ($300 deposit and then remaining $295 1st day of class)
Late Registration - $995 after July 1st
How do I sign up?
Because of the limited class size, everyone must audition to get into the class. Contact 1 (213) 944-3132 or email audition@theaccentexchange.com to schedule an audition with Eliza Jane.
Who is Eliza Jane Schneider?
Eliza Jane Schneider has taught and recorded dialects all over England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, both Islands of New Zealand, all 50 United States, South Africa, the West Indies, Russia, Israel, and France, to name a few. A top voice actress, she has played hundreds of dialect characters for PIXAR, Disney, FOX, MTV, Comedy Central, the Cartoon Network, NBC, CBS, Paramount, and others for nearly twenty years. For five years, she voiced 8 Series Regular characters (Wendy, Shelly, Principal Victoria, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Cartman, Mrs. McCormick, Ms. Crabtree, The Mayor) and hundreds of additional voices for Comedy Central's hit animated series "South Park."
Founder of the Eliza Doolittle Dialects school, Eliza Jane has been coaching actors for dialect roles in film and television in Hollywood since 1992. She published her Distinctions in American Southern dialect collection in 1999 and has a database of over 3000 hours of dialects recorded from around the world.
Touted as one of Hollywood's top five professional dialect experts in both voice acting and coaching, Eliza Jane has taught Dialects and Accent Reduction at Brown University, Trinity Rep, The O?Neill Theater Center, Word Bridge Playwright's Workshop, The Famous Radio Ranch, The Learning Tree University and Dolores Diehls Voice-Over Academy. She was the Master Dialects teacher at the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (AFTRA) in 2008 and the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory at the American Film Institute in Hollywood in 2009.
Watch a video of classes in action at: www.elizadoolittledialects.com
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