Accent Coaches - Our Team
Bringing authenticity to screens.
Hi! My name is Katherine. I've scouted the world, bringing together the best of the best. Here I got the best most educated and creative linguists, cultural enthusiasts, and accent coaches to bring any role to life. No project is too small or too big!
Department Leads
The masterminds behind Accent Training.
Lead Accent Coach
Lydia Cahall
Lydia focuses on US Regional Accents as well as ESL for Actors.
Lead Administrator
Katherine Pierce
Katherine is the lead administrator, navigating through actors and productions.
Lead Accent Coach
Ram Kanneganti
Ram focuses on Accent Reduction for foreign actors, as well as, US and UK regional accents.
Celebrity Coaches
Meet our shinning stars.
Celebrity Accent Coach
Joseph Tisa
Joseph Tisa is an actor and accent coach based out of Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Acting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He was trained in the context of Edith Skinner's "classical" method, and he has worked on vocal technique with certified Fitzmaurice Voicework teachers. In addition to appearing in productions at regional theaters all around the country as an actor himself, Joseph has coached private clients in acting and accents for a number of years. He has also been engaged as an accent coach for several theatrical productions, including "Stones in His Pockets", "All the Way", and "The Great Society" at Lyric Repertory Company in Utah. Joseph focuses on guiding his clients toward developing a facility for identifying and producing the specific and representative sounds, vocal postures, tonal characteristics, and rhythms of a given accent in order to establish authenticity and ease in their work.
Celebrity Accent Coach
Marie Favre
Marie is a trilingual actress from Geneva. Got her associates degree in Sismond’s college in Switzerland. And then moved to America and graduated from New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. She pursued specialized training in accents in order to remove her own and play all sorts of cosmopolitan characters by polishing specific dialects for characters with different backgrounds. She is skilled at guiding students since she has walked that path herself already. She approaches her class with creativity and individualized technique. She pays particular attention on the story and character’s breakdown when it comes to the language, idiosyncrasies and the kind of accent that best serves the story.
Celebrity Accent Coach
Jack Wallace
Jack is an experienced dialect coach from England, based in Los Angeles. With over 10 Million combined views on his videos for Buzzfeed and a private coaching practice, Jack specializes in coaching professional actors with all accents for their roles, on set coaching and working with idiolects. Known for his warmth and precision, Jack has become an in-demand coach for a broad range of projects from films and television to theatre and commercials. An expert advisor for news outlets such as CNN, Entertainment Tonight!, Buzzfeed, IGN and Insider Jack is the go-to specialist for accent questions within the film industry. Formally trained, with a Master’s in Professional Voice Practice from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Jack draws from a strong technical knowledge of the voice to distill the key features of an accent to prepare actors for any role.
Experience Working With
Our Accent Coaches
Daniel Meeks
US Regional, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, French
Garrison Keener
UK and Irish regional accents and dialects.
Chelsea Sorenson
US, UK, and Australian regionals accents.
Mia Ellis
Caribbean, Ugandan, Irish, West African.
Joseph Tisa
US and UK regional accents and dialects.
Lulu Grey
US and UK regional accents.
Graciela Metzler
Hispanic regional accents and Spanish languages.
Olha Prytula
Eastern European accents and languages.
Christina Korotich
Eastern European accents and languages.
Crystal Hsia
Chinese accents and languages.
Kotaro Watanabe
Japanese accents and language.
Taehyun Cho
Korean accents and language.