American Accents ONLINE (Autumn Term)

Do you need to improve your Standard American accent?

This affordable, six-week ONLINE course will allow you to develop your American accent and is open to all professional actors and actors in training. You are strongly recommended to have had some prior voice/speech training in order to get the most from the sessions.

These classes offer a supportive, rigorous, interactive online environment for you to develop your accent skills. As the course is developmental, you are asked to book in for all six sessions.

Week 1

• Accent Context, Brief History and when useful

• Oral Posture / Mouth Set-up for the accent

Week 2

• Recap Posture

• Major Consonant sounds

Week 3

• Recap Consonants

• Vowel Sounds

Week 4

• Recap Vowels

• Accent Prosody

Week 5

• Recap Prosody

• Apply accent to texts

Week 6

• Accent Application

• Cold Reading in Accent

Actors who’ve worked with Collective have gone on to work in Hollywood films, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, in the West End and in series for Netflix, HBO, BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

We are passionate about working with actors from underrepresented groups and we will always seek to break down barriers to access in professional actor-training. Scholarships are available for those who are facing challenging circumstances.

If you want to learn more about how to apply, email reception@collectiveactingstudio.co.uk

Disclaimer: these classes will take place online over GoogleMeet.

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