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EXPERIENCING ACCENTS #32 Online
2026-04-10 08:00 - 2026-04-19 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, United States
A SIX-DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP IN THE SKILLS OF ACCENT ACQUISITION
With Master Teachers Andrea Caban & Tyler Seiple
April 10-12 & 17-19, 2026, 8am-3pm Pacific Time.
Daily meal break 11am-12pm Pacific Time.
April 13-16 will be days off.
All sessions will be recorded and shared with participants.
Please note that synchronous participation in the entirety of Experiencing Speech and Phonetics Intensive is prerequisite for Experiencing Accents.
Click here for a full description of the workshop.
Early Bird Registration ($100 USD off the Regular Registration cost) is available through January 31, 2026!
For more about Knight-Thompson Speechwork, please visit About the Work.

Workshop Costs:

Early Bird Registration

$850 USD*

Regular Registration

$950 USD**

* Early Bird Registration will be available through January 31, 2026.
** If you’re a VASTA member, please enter discount code ‘vasta’ at check-out for a 10% discount off the Regular Registration fee. If you’re interested in repeating an “Experiencing…” workshop that you’ve already taken, add your name to the “re-taker” waitlist here. We will contact you two weeks prior to the start of the workshop to let you know if there is space for you and provide you with a discount code for 1/2 off the full price of the workshop (discounts cannot be combined).

Deadlines:
In order to plan effectively for these workshops, it’s important to have a clear sense of the commitment of potential participants. For that reason we ask for a deposit of $200 to secure your place in the workshop. This is due six weeks prior to the start of the workshop, on February 27, 2026. The full payment is due three weeks prior to the start of the workshop, on March 20, 2026. If your plans change, and you are unable to attend, we will refund any payment less $75 if you inform us by March 27, 2026.
After that date, however, no refunds are possible. Please plan accordingly.

KTS Webinar #66: Intimate Voice
2026-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Friday, 10th April, 2026, 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT/ 7am AEDT

Intimacy coordination has transformed physical staging practices and highlighted the importance of consent-based practices on set, in rehearsal and in actor training. However, voice training and intimacy co-ordination have remained mostly separate fields, with the movement-led background of intimacy co-ordinators leading to a situation where the artistic possibilities and possible health concerns around voice are often an afterthought in intimate scenes. How can voice professionals use the consent-based practices of intimacy coordination in our own work and teaching practice? How might a greater awareness of vocal storytelling and safety inform the staging of intimate scenes across all performance contexts? We will discuss current approaches to intimate voice work, methods of notating vocal choreography, and explore how to navigate ethical, technical and artistic considerations in scenes that require intimate voice. Convert to your time zone here.

Tickets for this webinar are $10. Registration will close 12 hours prior to the event and participants will then receive Zoom link information. All registrants will also receive the recording after the meeting has ended and been processed.

Kat Littrell (she/they) is a voice actor, educator, and dialect coach. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, her MFA dissertation examined intimacy practices in voice-only performance contexts. Her work bridges consent-based practices, vocal health, and storytelling. Kat is an award-winning audiobook narrator, including an Audie Award nomination for Audiobook of the Year (2026). She brings her professional experience in voice over and intimate vocal storytelling into her approach to actor training, and has most recently taught as a Voice and Speech professor at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. As a coach and teacher, Kat combines rigorous technique with playful exploration, empowering actors to develop confident, expressive, and sustainable vocal practices and performances.
