Say You Say Me.

A podcast about accents and the actors that do them. Accent coach Linda Nicholls-Gidley talks accents and accent acquisition with various actors, coaches and directors. How do actors learn accents? What does it take to acquire and act in accent? Listen for tips, tricks and entertaining stories about rehearsal, set life and trying to convince people you come from somewhere else.

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Say You Say Me.

Erik Singer

August 13, 2021 • Linda Nicholls-Gidley • Season 1 • Episode 5

Welcome to episode 5 of Say You Say Me the accentED podcast. The podcast about accents and the actors that do them.

In this episode, your host, accent and dialect coach Linda Nicholls-Gidley, interviews Accent and Dialect coach, and WIRED accent guy, Erik Singer.

Erik is a dialect coach for film and television, a Master Teacher of Knight Thompson Speechwork, and a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Recent work includes Terminator: Dark Fate, Barry Levinson's The Survivor, starring Ben Foster, Disney's live action Mulan, Sia's debut feature Music, and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Biopic. His Webby award winning videos for WIRED, discussing accents and language sounds have been viewed over 70 million times.

Erik discusses the use of standard accents, the relationship between the actor and the dialect coach and his journey to becoming a coach.

This episode was recorded in front of a live zoom audience.