This innovative and highly effective skills-based approach to speech and accent training for actors is now being used with success in a rapidly increasing number of professional training programs and college theatre departments, as well as in clinical and ESL settings. Designed for voice and speech teachers, actors, directors, and speech pathologists, the intensive workshop in Knight-Thompson Speechwork will be structured in two parts. The first will focus on the physical actions that produce all the sounds of the world's languages; this section will contain no phonetic transcription. The second part will continue the exploration into even greater specificity through the use of narrow phonetic transcription. It will use these skills to explore formal and informal speech actions while maintaining complete intelligibility at all times. These skills prepare the actor to move easily into any accent or vocal characterization that might be required onstage or in film, television or new media.
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PART ONE
Three days, July 1 - 3- Awareness and practice of precise articulation action.
- Producing all the sounds in language-"Omnish."
- The Skills of Speech for American speakers.
BREAK
We will take a day off Wednesday, July 4. This is a chance to rest and process information or to see both a matinee and evening show in New York.
PART TWO
Three days, July 5 - 7- The application of detailed IPA phonetic transcription to the process of speech and accent research.
- Using the entire IPA to research and teach speech.
The Knight-Thompson Speechwork workshops will be held at Chelsea Studios, a division of Theatreworks USA, located at 151 West 26th Street, New York, NY.
Workshop Costs
| VASTA Members | Non-members |
| $700 | $800 |
Your full payment must be received by June 15. The deposit, less $25 handling fee, is refundable until June 25.
No refunds thereafter. You will receive your receipt at the workshop.
Enrollment
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