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Learning Accents & Dialects
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for actors and entertainers
Stage Dialects — Accent Acting — Dialect Acting
Dialects for Actors — Accents for Theatre / Film / Television
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Acting With An Accent

Dialects & Accents for Actors, Storytellers, etc.
NOT JUST IMITATION, but SYSTEMATIC LESSONS for each accent's
Intonation - Speech Rhythm - Muscularity/Resonance - Pronunciation
Used in over one thousand college theatre programs and by professional actors around the world! One-hour CDs with manuals teaching you Lilt, Stress, Resonance, and Pronunciation.
Select from 25 different patterns.
Which Course Should I Buy?
Price: $19.95
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Acting With An Accent - All 25 Patterns

Dialects & Accents for Actors, Storytellers, etc.
NOT JUST IMITATION, but SYSTEMATIC LESSONS for each accent's
Intonation - Speech Rhythm - Muscularity/Resonance - Pronunciation
Used in over one thousand college theatre programs and by professional actors around the world! 25 one-hour CDs with manuals teaching you Lilt, Stress, Resonance, and Pronunciation.
25 different patterns:
- New York City
- American Southern
- Texas
- Boston
- "Down East" New England
- "Kennedyesque"
- Chicago
- Mid-West Farm
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- Standard British
- British North Country
- Cockney
- Irish
- Scottish
- Australian
- Spanish
- Italian
- French
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- German
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Norwegian/Swedish
- Arabic
- Farsi (Persian)
- West Indian/Black African
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Price: $399.95
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American Accent for Canadian Actors

Second Edition (CD), Newly Revised, Expanded & Recorded
Special Version of Acting with an Accent
80-minute CD and manual
For Canadian Anglophones playing or auditioning for American roles; teaches American speech inflections, vocal resonance, and pronunciation changes.
Price: $19.95
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American Accents for English Actors CD

Now on CD!
Special Versions of Acting with an Accent
Three almost 80-minute CDs and manual
Teaches several American patterns to British and other Commonwealth speakers:
- Standard American
- Southern & Texas
- New York City
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The Dialect Handbook, 2nd Edition

Learning, Researching, and Performing a Dialect Role
by Ginny Kopf
From Voiceprint Publishing
Contents:
- An Introduction to Learning Dialects
- Audition Preparation for a Dialect Play
- Script Analysis for a Dialect Play
- Pre-Rehearsal Research
- Adapting the Dialect for the Stage
- The rehearsal process: Polishing the Dialect
- Run-Throughs, Dress Rehearsals, Opening Night and Beyond
- To the Dialect Coach (and the Director)
- Dialect Actor's Checklist
- Bibliography of Dialect Tapes and Texts
- The Dialect Directory (listing hundreds of feature films, TV series, audiotapes, books and dialect instructional tapes for studying more than thirty different dialects)
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"I had planned sometime in the future to write a book dealing with the actor's complete preparation for and execution of a dialect role as well as professional issues confronted by production dialect coaches. Having read Ginny Kopf's handbook, I am crossing that project off of my 'to do' list. Ginny has already done it better than I would have."
David Alan Stern
Price: $19.95
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