KTS Webinar #51 Working with L2 English Speakers: Strategies for Accent and Acting Coaching

Whether working in a university theater program or coaching on set in English, as teachers and coaches, we’re always looking for ways to effectively support students and clients for whom English is a second (or third, fourth, etc.) language: to help them embody the role, book the job, or give them the tools and confidence to serve them in their creative careers long-term.

Join us on Zoom for a conversation with KTS Certified Teachers and Hollywood accent coaches, Ron Carlos and Eliza Simpson, where we’ll explore accent work for actors who are L2 English speakers.

On Sunday, May 19th at 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm GMT

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Registration will close 12 hours prior to the event and participants will then receive Zoom link information. All registrants will also receive the recording and post-webinar survey after the meeting has ended and been processed.

Ron Carlos (he/him) is a graduate of the ART Institute at Harvard University, with an MFA equivalent in Advanced Theater Training with a Concentration in Voice and Speech Pedagogy. Ron taught voice, speech, and dialects at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Marymount Manhattan College, City College of New York, and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Ron is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork; a Lead Trainer of Fitzmaurice Voicework®; the Founding Coach for BoldVoice: a mobile pronunciation app for English learners; and the author of Introduction to Speechwork for Actors: An Inclusive Approach (Methuen Drama). Selected credits: Broadway: It’s Only a Play, The Glass Menagerie; Off-Broadway: Sweat, Mlima’s Tale, The Low Road, Kings, Gently Down The Stream, Plenty, Privacy (Public Theater); Mary Jane (NYTW); Charm (MCC); The Gentleman Caller (Abingdon). Regional: Seven Guitars, Cadillac Crew, Native Son, Assassins, War (Yale Rep); The Lily’s Revenge, The Glass Menagerie (ART); The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage); Murder on the Orient Express (Alley Theatre); Skeleton Crew, Grounded (Westport Country Playhouse); Ava: The Secret Conversations (Geffen). Film and Series: Daisy Jones and The Six, Hunters (Amazon); Based on a True Story (Peacock); The Last Thing He Told Me (Apple); The Bagman (Lionsgate); The Comey Rule (Showtime); Orange is the New Black, The Week Of (Netflix).

Eliza Simpson is an NYC based accent and speech coach. Select credits include – Inside Out 2 (Disney), Apples Never Fall (Peacock), and Avatar: Frontieres of Pandora (Ubisoft Games.) She is also a head coach and content creator for BoldVoice, a top rated accent training app for English learners.