Spotlight Open House: English as a Second Language - The English Accent

Age: 18+

About the session:

Designed specifically for non-native English speakers and actors, this workshop delves more deeply into the mechanics of accent/dialect/speech work as it applies to the contemporary RP accent!

Skill level: Beginner
Accent/s: Contemporary RP.
Brief: If you have ever felt that an accent class with English natives went too fast, struggled to hear the varieties in English accents, or you would simply benefit from an introduction to Contemporary RP, this workshop is for you!

Participants will be led through the foundations of most requested RP accent for stage and screen: Contemporary RP, exploring the obvious and not-so-obvious components to sounding 'native'. Borrowing from such methods developed by Jan Haydn Rowles and Edda Sharpe (How to Do Accents), as well as Knight-Thompson Speechwork (Experiencing Speech), this course will allow you to increase vocal and articulatory agility as well as authentically embody RP sounds for audition and performance. Participants will be introduced to key sounds, and apply to script.

About Nina Zendejas:

Nina Zendejas is an International voice coach specialising in accent and dialect, and native to the United States. Currently working as the Head of Voice at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts (MT) in London, voice-over artist (represented by WIsebuddah), and freelance production coach. Nina has worked internationally between the USA and UK on numerous productions/film including Dancing with the Stars, Playboy of the Western World, How I learned to Drive(Southwark Playhouse) Obama-ology(Finborough Theatre), London, Let’s get Visceral! (Viscera Theatre), Stone’s in His Pockets (Lyric Stage), and Invasion/Bocon (Apollinaire Theater).

As a voiceover artist, she has voiced for international companies such as Lego, Sky Sports, Dove, Baileys, and many more. Nina’s synthesis of voice pedagogy and performer training allows for an intimate understanding of an actor’s needs.

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