Amy Stoller ★ Dialect Designer & Dramaturge

Suiting Words to Actions Since 1995 917-319-7448 ★ [email protected] ★ 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 (Cloud Eight Films, Celador Films, Harpo Films, Pathé, Plan B idiolect (individual speech pattern) Entertainment) ★ Carmen Ejogo, NAACP Image Award, Black Reel Award Nurse Jackie (Season 7, Episode 11, “Vigilante Jones”; Showtime) Norwegian language (series regular Betty Gilpin); Kutchi language (guest star Purva Bedi) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC Universal) 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; ) American (Australian actor Callan Mulvey) Let Me Down Easy ★ (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/Stephen David Entertainments) French; German; Russian; Italian WWII in HD (History Channel/Lou Reda Productions) ★ Justin Bartha German Law and Order: SVU, “911” (NBC) ★ Emmy Award, Mariska Hargitay Writers’ consultant for Hondureñismos—Honduran vocabulary & regionalisms used to construct major plot point

BROADWAY Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Stephen Sondheim Theatre) New York accents for Jessie Mueller (TONY AWARD as Carole King) and Jake ★ Tony & Drama Desk Awards, Jessie Mueller Epstein (as Gerry Goffin)

RESIDENT DIALECT DESIGNER, Mint Theater Company, New York, NY Over 25 productions since 1996, including: A Day by the Sea ★ NY Times Critics’ Pick ★ Ten Best of 2016: Wall Street RP, Scottish; also dramaturgy Journal Women Without Men ★ Five Drama Desk nominations, two Lucille Lortel Irish (various), French, RP; also dramaturgy nominations, Off Broadway Alliance nomination London Wall ★ Drama Desk & Lucille Lortel Nominee; NY Times & Time Out RP; London Middle-Class; Cockney; also dramaturgy New York Critics’ Picks The Teresa Deevy Project: three plays including Wife to James Whelan ★ Co. Westmeath (Irish Midlands); also dramaturgy Time Out New York & New York Magazine Critics’ Pick 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, 17 idiolects (individual speech patterns), including speakers from New Jersey; MA). Previous edition: Berkeley Rep and touring.) ★ NY Times Critics’ Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; North Charleston & Richland County SC; Pick ★ Best Theatre of 2016: NY Times, Time, Vulture, TimeOut NY, Stockton, CA; Puerto Rico; El Salvador; Yurok Tribe, others. NorthJersey.com, Towleroad; BuzzFeed; The Forward; WBUR; Theater Pizzazz Let Me Down Easy (Second Stage, NYC; National Tour; preceded by World 20 idiolects, including Lance Armstrong, Eve Ensler, Lauren Hutton, Gov. Ann Premiere, Long Wharf, New Haven, CT) 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 ★ [email protected] ★ www.stollersystem.com

OTHER WORLD PREMIERES The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence (Playwrights Horizons, NYC) Cultivated New England; RP; character voice differentiation ★ Pulitzer Finalist Drama A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT) by Paula Vogel; American northern and southern regional accents for Caucasian and African- dir. Tina Landau American actors/characters; German and 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 Liberian; Bulgarian; Indian Aditi Brennan Kapil 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 (, NYC; remounted as For Buffalo, NY Heaven’s Sake! at 710 Main, Buffalo, NY)

OTHER AWARD-WINNERS The Miss Education of Jenna Bush (Fringe NYC) ★ Melissa Rauch ★ Fringe Award, Outstanding Solo Show; Theatermania Audience Favorite Award Devil Boys from Beyond (Fringe NYC) ★ Fringe Award, Overall Excellence Mid-Atlantic (1930s movie star) Award for Outstanding Play

SELECTED ACCENTS & DIALECTS 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 ACTORS: 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, Tom Hewitt, Jonathan Hogan, Robert Hogan, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Laurie Kennedy, Karl Kenzler, Kevin Kilner, Roberta Maxwell, Adrienne C. Moore, George Morfogen, Melissa Rauch, Roslyn Ruff, Wrenn Schmidt, Dylan Riley Snyder, Dale Soules, Frances Sternhagen. DIRECTORS: 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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