Tyler Seiple

TYLER SEIPLE is an actor, director, writer, producer, and freelance voice and speech coach in the Los Angeles area. He is the founder of phonetic phreedom™ (www.accentcoachla.com), which draws extensively from Knight-Thompson Speechwork. His private clients have been heard onscreen in projects ranging from "True Blood" and "Chuck" to "Shameless" and "House of Cards." He has coached shows throughout the Los Angeles area, with companies including the Fountain Theatre, the Antaeus Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre, the LA Philharmonic Association, and the Museum of Natural History. Tyler holds a Master of the Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine. He is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and has taught speech, voice, and acting at the University of California, Irvine, and Chapman University. Tyler is an LA Stage Alliance Ovation-nominated actor with a résumé that includes two feature films, four series, and multiple award-winning short films. His producing, directing, and writing credits span both stage and film, and he is a proud supporter of community-based production in the Los Angeles area.

What’s in a Pedagogy?

Tyler SeipleMASTER TEACHER, Omnish, phonetics, physicality, Principles (perhaps), roots, teaching

In talking with Master Teacher Andrea Caban about Knight-Thompson Speechwork and how we teach it, I’ve begun to reflect on what a pedagogy is. Erik and Phil have both written extensively on the pedagogy of Knight-Thompson Speechwork, its origins and its principles. But Andrea and I have also been talking about its other aspects, the aspects that are slipperier to write about, harder to enumerate, eagerer(?) to avoid lists and charts and diagrams. We bandied about the ideas of “hard” versus “soft” teaching principles, or maybe the “form” versus the “content” of the pedagogy. That distinction got me thinking about […]

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Formality Follow-Up

Tyler SeipleUncategorized

The points that Jeremy raised in last week’s post are worth weeks of exploration, and I am so grateful for his courage and his insight in bringing his curiosity to this forum. I wanted to stumble my way into this socio-philosophical hall of mirrors with my own questions to bounce around in some attempt at securing my epistemological footing. In June, I taught an Experiencing Speech with Master Teacher Andrea Caban, and we bumped up against this same issue as we neared the end of the six-day intensive. While the group was quite comfortable with Dudley’s “Principles, Perhaps …” and […]

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Writing a Book on Accents

Tyler Seipleaccents, acting, linguistics, phonetics, questions, teaching

  From Tyler: I’ve been thinking lately about writing a book on accent acquisition. Which has mostly resulted in me thinking about the challenges associated with writing a book on accent acquisition. And I’ll say up front: I know other Knight-Thompson teachers are laboring away at this very same idea, most of them much further along than I am. This blog post in no way aims to undermine their efforts, but rather explore the goals and challenges associated with accent acquisition education that arise when I think of writing a book on the subject. I’d love to have current authors’ […]

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Meet the Editors — Part Two!

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Hello, Readers! If you haven’t had a chance to read our last post yet, make sure you do that before diving into this post. As we begin to experiment with the format and mission of the KTS Blog, we’ve been asking each other questions, about the work and our relationship with it. Our post last time prompted some responses that got us all sorts of curious, and we couldn’t just let those responses stand uninterrogated. So we share with you this week our responses — and our responses to our responses — to some of our initial lines of inquiry. […]

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