DIALECT & SPEECH COACH
FEATURE FILM AND TELEVISION
GEOSTORM Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish Dean Devlin BOLDEN Gary Carr, Nelsan Ellis Dan Pritzker TRIPLE NINE Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson /Cast – Atlanta John Hillcoat THE AGE OF ADALINE Michiel Huisman – American Lee Toland Krieger LOUIE Ellen Burstyn – Hungarian FX Series NEIL. INC. Stephanie Szostak – American Series Pilot THE AMERICANS Aimee Carrero – Costa Rican FX Series THE JUDGE Robert Downey Jr, The Cast – Southern Indiana, Chicago David Dobkin ANIMAL RESCUE Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts – Brooklyn Michaël R. Roskam NOAH The Cast - Mid Atlantic Darren Aronofsky BANSHEE Antony Starr, Ulrich Thomsen – G. American, Pennsyvania Dutch HBO Series THE SIXTH GUN Michiel Huisman – American NBC Pilot ZERO DARK THIRTY Jason Clarke, Édgar Ramírez Kathryne Bigelow New Jersey, Miami GIRLS Chris O’ Dowd – American HBO Series ARBITRAGE Tim Roth – New York Nicholas Jarecki IRON MAN 3 Stephanie Szostak – American Shane Black OPEN GRAVE Sharlto Copley – American Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego GI JOE 2: RETALIATION Jonathon Pryce, Byung-hun Lee Elodie Yung, Ray Stevenson – various Jon Chu SPARKLE Carmen Ejogo – Detroit Salim Akil TOWER HEIST Gabourey Sidibe – Jamaican Brett Ratner FRIENDS WITH KIDS Chris O’ Dowd – New York Jennifer Westfeldt ON THE ROAD Sam Riley, Tom Sturridge – various Walter Salles TERRA NOVA Jason O’ Mara – Chicago FOX Series DANCING ON THE EDGE Ariyon Bakare – American STARZ Series STRAW DOGS Alexander Skarsgard – Georgia Rod Lurie MAN ON A LEDGE Jamie Bell – New York Asger Leth MACHINE GUN PREACHER Gerard Butler – Pennsylvania Marc Forster SHAME Michael Fassbender – Prep Steve McQueen THE ART OF GETTING BY Freddie Highmore – New York Gavin Wiesen THE A–TEAM Sharlto Copley – S. African to Southern Joe Carnahan BROKEN HILL Timothy Hutton – Australian Dagen Merrill SALT Liev Schreiber – Texas Phillip Noyce HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA Patrick Bauchau – Jamaican HBO Series HELENA FROM THE WEDDING Gillian Jacobs – British Joseph Infantolino LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Gerard Butler – New York F. Gary Gray DÉJÀ VU Jim Caviezel – Louisiana Tony Scott LIFE ON MARS Jason O’Mara – New York ABC Series NORTH COUNTRY Sean Bean – Minnesota Niki Caro HOUSE M.D. Patrick Bauchau – Euro/Australian FOX Series Aasha Davis – New Orleans
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KINGS Chris Egan – Australian to American NBC Series AWAY WE GO Carmen Ejogo, Melanie Lynskey – British, New Zealand to American Sam Mendes REPOSESION MAMBO Alice Braga, Carice van Houten – Miguel Sapochnik GENERATION KILL Alexander Skarsgard/Cast – various HBO Mini-Series JOURNEYMAN Kevin McKidd – Scottish to American NBC Series THE KEY MAN Jack Davenport, Hugo Weaving Petet Himmelstein THE NINE Owen Yeoman – British to American CBS Series THE NATIVITY STORY The Cast – Biblical Middle Eastern Catherine Hardwicke COPYING BEETHOVEN Ed Harris and Cast – Mid Atlantic Agnieszka Holland THE DARWIN AWARDS Joseph Fiennes – Northern California Finn Taylor THE DALE EARNHARD STORY Barry Pepper – N. Carolina ESPN Movie AN UNFINISHED LIFE Jennfier Lopez – Wyoming Lasse Hallstrom WITHOUT A TRACE Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Queens CBS Series BARBERSHOP II Leonard Howze – Nigerian Kevin Sullivan STILL STANDING Mark Addy – British to Chicago CBS Series I AM DAVID Jim Caviezel – Russion Paul Feig HONEY The Cast – Dialougue Coach Billy Woodruff DOWN WITH LOVE Ewan MacGregor – Oklahoma Peyton Reed LOVELY AND AMAZING Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer – Nicole Holofcener British to American Lion’s Gate Films MURDER BY NUMBERS Ben Chaplin – American Barbet Schroeder NBC “WAR STORIES” The Cast – Uzbek/Russion NBC Series Pilot REMEMBER THE TITANS ADR – Virginia late 1960's Boaz Yakim ROMEO MUST DIE Jet Li – Accent Reduction, (Prep/ADR) Andrzej Bartkowiak LETHEL WEAPON 4 Jet Li – Accent Reduction Richard Donner HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK Taye Diggs – Jamaican Kevin Sullivan THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE Keanu Reeves – Florida Taylor Hackford
THEATER
DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH The Cast – South Carolina Gutherie Theater ROCKET POWER ARENA SHOW Matching Cast w/ Cartoon Voices Nickelodeon LAST NIGHT AT BALLY HOO The Cast – Atlanta Beverly Hills Playhouse TRAINED AT THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL
TIM MONICH AND EDITH SKINNER FOR SPEECH AND DIALECTS; JANE KOZMINSKI, ANNA SOKOLOV, MONI YAKIM, TADASHI SUZUKI FOR MOVEMENT; LIZ SMITH, ROBERT WILLIAMS, CINDIA HUPPLER FOR VOICE
Jerome Butler • 213.219.3533 • [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1986-1990 UCLA EXTENSION, Arts In Corrections Workshop Leader Taught improvisational theatre techniques in California State Prisons and Youth Authority facilities. Curriculum included MASK WORK, MOVEMENT, CONFLICT/RESOLUTION BASED SCENE STUDY.
Jan.-May, 1990 UNIVERSITY MISSOURI, Kansas City, Visiting Professor of Acting Taught heightened language/style class, energy and movement technic, and introductory acting to students in the graduate conservatory program.
1991-1992 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Visiting Professor, Music and Theatre Taught introduction and intermediate acting courses. Created a video exchange project between MIT students and California Prison inmates.
1994-2001 LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, Voice and Speech Instructor Taught vocal production and stage diction to all theater program students.
1995-1998 LEE STRASBERG INSTITUTE, Accent Reduction Instructor Worked with foreign students to reduce idiosyncratic speech elements based on their native language and achieve a General American Sound.
COLLABORATIVE GRANTS AND RESIDENCES 1988 THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, Grant recipient through LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS (LACE) Developed multimedia performance piece based on community perceptions of prison inmates.
1992 WE TELL STORIES RESIDENCY Worked with elementary school students. Workshops focused on storytelling techiques and theatricalizing stories created by students. Residency culminated in a staged performance.
1991-1994 CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL, Artist in Residence Taught inmates at Chucka Walla Valley State Prison all phases of video production. Workshop participants took projects from the development stage through to post production. Focus on creative problem solving and group collaboration.
Jerome Butler • 213.219.3533 • [email protected]