American Accents ONLINE (Autumn Term)

NEXT SESSION: 14th OCTOBER

LAST SESSION: 28th OCTOBER (RESCHEDULED CLASS)

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

Abby Sheridan, a Cincinnati, Ohio native, is a London based voice and accent coach. She teaches spoken voice and accents at Momentum.

Abby trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama receiving an MFA in Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching and additionally at the University of Kentucky for her undergraduate degree, a BA in Theatre Acting.

Before moving to London, Abby spent 5 years acting and performing in musical theatre in New York City. Some of her performance credits include CATS, Grease, and 42nd Street.

Abby’s teaching credits for spoken voice and accents include: University for the Creative Arts, London School of Musical Theatre, Emil Dale Academy, University of West London-London College of Music, University of Essex East 15 Acting School, Rose Bruford College and The Fourth Monkey Acting Training program. Additionally, she worked as a Vocal Coach for the Young Vic Theatre’s production of The Jumper Factory.

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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