In a Manner of Speaking

Gillyanne Kayes Jeremy Fisher Paul’s guests for July 2019 are Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher of “Vocal Process,” internationally renowned voice experts specializing in vocal technique and performance in many different genres. A husband-and-wife team, they combine a deep understanding of the voice that comes from science knowledge, performance practice, and decades of experience. The three discuss speaking and singing. Gillyanne is a voice researcher, pedagogue, and coach, working with numerous artists in theatre, cabaret, and in the recording studio, while Jeremy is a national prizewinning pianist, performance coach and vocal educator. For their full bios, visit VocalProcess.co.uk. Gillyanne and Jeremy’s recent work includes: This Is A Voice: the book commissioned by the Wellcome Trust on speaking and singing exercises (and beatboxing); The One Minute Voice Warmup app for Android and Apple; the Amazon #1 bestselling ebook How To Sing Legato; and Taking Vocal Technique Into Song, an hour-long, streaming webinar. The fair-use sound clips you heard in this podcast were: Sweeney Todd, written by Stephen Sondheim and John Logan, directed by Tim Burton, copyright DreamWorks / Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation / The Zanuck Company; and Speaking in Tongues 3, by Sheila Chandra, copyright Sheila Chandra and Real World Records. The Kathy Jensen laughing transcription can be found at YouTube.The post Episode 18 (Speaking and Singing) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Rena Cook Paul’s guest for June 2019 is Rena Cook, a TEDx speaker, author, and voice, speech, confidence, and presentation coach. Rena and Paul discuss voice and speech, particularly among women. Rena is the founder of Vocal Authority, a training consultancy serving clients who want to use their voice in more commanding and authentic ways. She is the author of Empower your Voice: For Women in Business, Politics and Life and Voice and the Young Actor, and an associate editor of the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA). Rena has an MA in voice studies from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma. Her dedication to teacher preparation continues as she teaches at the University of Houston on their Summer MA for Drama Teachers program. Rena’s TEDxOU talk is titled “Power without Press: The Foundation of Authentic Communication.”The post Episode 17 (Vocal Authority) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Kristin Linklater For the May 2019 edition of his podcast, Paul discusses voice and speech with Kristin Linklater, a towering figure in the world of voice and speech training. Read about Kristin’s career and work at LinklaterVoice.com.The post Episode 16 (Voice and Speech) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Phil Thompson For the April 2019 podcast, Paul discusses speech rhythm with Phil Thompson. Phil is the co-founder of Knight/Thompson Speechwork, a masterteacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, and a professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine. Read more about him at http://drama.arts.uci.edu/faculty/philip-thompson and https://ktspeechwork.org/. We acknowledge fair use of the brief clip from On the Waterfront, 1954, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, copyright Columbia Pictures. Paul’s ebook, Voicing Shakespeare, is available here.The post Episode 15 (If It Ain’t Got Rhythm) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Elizabeth Montoya-Stemann Dylan Paul Paul’s guests for March 2019 are Elizabeth Montoya-Stemann (an IDEA associate editor from the Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica) and Dylan Paul (Broadway actor, voice and speech expert, and IDEA senior editor). The three discuss the culture, languages, voices, and dialects of the Caribbean. Read more about Dylan and Elizabeth, respectively, at http://www.dylanpaul.net/ and https://www.dialectsarchive.com/elizabeth-montoya-stemann.The post Episode 14 (Caribbean Voices) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

David Alan Stern This month’s podcast, for February 2019, focuses on releasing the power of the text. Paul’s guest is David Alan Stern, one of the longest-established and most popular publishers of dialect help for actors, and professor emeritus of the University of Connecticut. Paul and David discuss the language arts as they impact the spoken word in all its manifestations and delve into topics such as eloquence, emphasis, public speaking, oratory, recitation, rhetorical skills, verse speaking, and vocal variety. For information about Professor Stern, visit https://learnaccent.com/about/.The post Episode 13 (Releasing the Power of the Text) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Linda Nicholls-Gidley For his first podcast of 2019, Paul discusses the history and sounds of “Strine,” the Australian dialect, with renowned Australian dialect coach Linda Nicholls-Gidley. Linda is one of Sydney’s most successful dialect coaches and also an associate editor of IDEA. Visit Vocovox.com.au/ for more information on Linda.The post Episode 12 (The Australian Dialect) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Amy Stoller For the his final podcast of 2018, Paul discusses idiolects with Amy Stoller, one of New York’s most successful dialect coaches. Amy is an IDEA associate editor and creator of the Stoller System. For more information on this month’s guest, Amy Stoller, see her website. (Bach’s Cello Suite #1 in G Major BMV 1007 Prelude (by Ivan Dolgunov) courtesy of Jamendo Licensing.)The post Episode 11 (Idiolects) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Paul’s musings for the November 2018 podcast start with the old adage “It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it,” and take off from there to cover sacred texts, profane politicians, and pumped-up actors. (Bach’s Cello Suite #1 in G Major BMV 1007 Prelude (by Ivan Dolgunov) courtesy of Jamendo Licensing.)The post Episode 10 (Addressing an Adage) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.

Jim Johnson For the October 2018 podcast, Paul’s guest is Jim Johnson, who is an IDEA associate editor, a professor and director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance, and founder of AccentHelp. Paul and Jim talk about dialects and accents, dialect-sample gathering, dialects on stage and in film, and accents and dialects in life. For more information on this month’s guest, Jim Johnson, see his IDEA page.The post Episode 9 (Dialects & Accents with Jim Johnson) first appeared on Paul Meier Dialect Services.