Amy Stoller

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Associate Editor at International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA)
Manager of Internet Resources at Voice and Speech Trainers Association - VASTA
Resident Dialect Designer/Coach and occasional Dramaturg at Mint Theater Company

Owner at Stoller System

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Amy Stoller’s Summary

Amy Stoller teaches accents and dialects to performers, and American English speech and diction to non-performers. If you’re a producer or director, she’ll guide your cast in creating a consistent vocal world in support of your production. If you’re a performer, she’ll help you hone your ability to “suit the word to the action.” If you work outside the entertainment industry, she’ll help you develop a readily understandable speech that improves your chances of employment or promotion.

More than 30 years as an entertainment industry professional; published writer on the arts.

Dialect production design and coaching for all media.

Research and text analysis for directors, writers, actors.

Instruction and coaching in Shakespeare and other classical and heightened-text material.

Audition coaching.

Amy Stoller’s Specialties:

Training and coaching in effective spoken communication, on stage and off. Research applied to supporting voice and speech aspect of entertainment projects for producers, directors, writers, and performers.

Amy Stoller’s Experience

Associate Editor

International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA)

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

IDEA was created in 1997 as a free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts.

As Associate Editor for New York City, I am responsible for contributing to the samples that make up the archive, by collecting and analyzing speech samples of people in the area.

Because more people in New York City grew up elsewhere, this covers a very wide range of international accents and dialects.
Manager of Internet Resources

Voice and Speech Trainers Association - VASTA

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

1999 — Present (10 years)

As part of my service to VASTA and the wider community of professional (and aspiring) voice and speech trainers and users, I edit the Internet Resources for Voice and Speech Professionals page on the VASTA website.
Resident Dialect Designer/Coach and occasional Dramaturg

Mint Theater Company

(Performing Arts industry)

1997 — Present (12 years)

Freelance, as sole proprietor of Stoller System.

Current: Dialect Design for D. Lawrence's The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd.

Previous: The Glass Cage, The Fifth Column; The Madras House; John Ferguson; Soldier’s Wife; The Skin Game; Echoes of the War; Milne at the Mint; The Daughter-in-Law; The Charity that Began at Home; Rutherford and Son; Diana of Dobson’s; The Voysey Inheritance; Mr. Pim Passes By

Directors: Jonathan Bank; Richard Corley; Gus Kaikkonen; Martin Platt; Eleanor Reissa

Stars: Richard Easton; Jonathan Hogan; Laurie Kennedy; Roberta Maxwell; George Morfogen; Frances Sternhagen
Owner

Stoller System

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

January 1995 — Present (14 years 7 months)

Dialect Coaching for individual clients. Dialect Production Design and Dialect Coaching for stage and screen. Workshops, seminars, and group classes in accents and dialects. Dramaturgy (research and text analysis) for performers, writers, and directors.

Resident Dialect Designer/Coach and occasional Dramaturg at the Mint Theater Company since 1997.

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Amy Stoller’s Groups:

The Shaw Project (Board of Advisors), Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), League of Professional Theatre Women, New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media (NYCWAM), Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Fractured Atlas, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU), Freelancers Union