When working with dialects, many actors hold their breath or use too much muscular effort.

Join Certified mVm Teacher Amanda Quaid to learn how mVm can support and enhance your dialect work, leading to increased ease and authenticity. Bring a piece of text in a dialect of your choosing to play around with. No previous mVm experience required!

Amanda has 15 years experience teaching speech, dialects, and language skills to actors and other speakers from around the world. Her approach to dialect work is holistic to the actor’s whole performance, using accents to support and stimulate the broader process of creating a character. In addition to her coaching on plays and films, she maintains a thriving private practice, is on faculty at HB Studio and Freeman Studio, and is featured as an accent expert on WNYC. As an actor, Amanda has worked on and Off-Broadway, regionally, and in film and television. Learn more at www.talkshopnyc.com.