Amy Stoller ★ Dialect Designer & Dramaturge

Suiting Words to Actions Since 1995

917-319-7448 ★ amystoller@stollersystem.com ★ www.stollersystem.com

oobr Award for Personal
Contribution to Excellence in an
Off Off Broadway
Theatrical Production
The Off Off Broadway Review
Ruth Morley Design Award “The best dialect work
for Outstanding Work in the Field in New York!”
of Theatrical Design —Leslie Hoban Blake,
League of Professional Theatre Two on the Aisle
Women

FILM & TELEVISION

Zola ★ Colman Domingo as X
Selma ★ Carmen Ejogo, NAACP Image Award, Black Reel
Award
Dietland (AMC)
Notes from the Field ★ Anna Deavere Smith,
dir. Kristi Zea (HBO) ★ NAACP Image Award Nominee,
2 Critics’ Choice Nominations
Nurse Jackie (Season 7, Episode 11, “Vigilante Jones”; SHO)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)
Mozart in the Jungle (Season 2, Episode 9; Amazon)
Power (Season 3, Episode 1; Starz)
Let Me Down Easy ★ Anna Deavere Smith (PBS)
YoungArts MasterClass ★ Anna Deavere Smith (HBO)
Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! (NICK)
London Wall (Theater Close-Up, WNET-Thirteen)
The World Wars (History Channel)
WWII in HD (History Channel)
Law and Order: SVU, “911” (NBC)
Yorùbá (Nigerian)
Coretta Scott King idiolect (individual speech pattern)
American (English actress Rowena King)
18 idiolects (individual speech patterns), incl. Rep. John
Lewis, James Baldwin, Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant,
Sherrilyn Ifill, Bree Newsome
Norwegian language (Betty Gilpin); Kutchi language (Purva
Bedi)
On-camera Scottish accent coach for James Poyser of house
band The Roots for “Suggestion Box” skit
Multicultural London English (American actor Luke
Rampersad)
American (Australian actor Callan Mulvey)
19 idiolects (individual speech patterns), incl. Lance
Armstrong, Lauren Hutton, Gov. Ann Richards,
Joel Siegel
Speech coach (also on-camera)
English; French; German, Egyptian Arabic
London middle-class, Cockney, RP
French; German; Russian; Italian
German (Justin Bartha)
Writers’ consultant on Hondureñismos for major plot point ★
Emmy Award, Mariska Hargitay

BROADWAY
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical ★ Tony & Drama Desk Mid-20th-century Brooklyn accents for Jessie Mueller (Tony
Awards, Jessie Mueller Award) as Carole King and Jake Epstein as Gerry Goffin

LONDON
Notes from the Field, conceived, written and performed by 17 idiolects (individual speech patterns of real people)
Anna Deavere Smith, Royal Court Theatre (LIFT Festival)
★ TimeOut “Best London Theatre of 2018”

RESIDENT DIALECT DESIGNER, Mint Theater Company, NYC; 40+ productions, including:
Becomes a Woman, by Betty Smith ★ World premiere; Outer Brooklyn + other American variants; also dramaturgy
Critics Circle Outstanding New Play nominee
The Daughter-in-Law (2003; 2022) ★ 2003 Drama Desk Ilson (Miners’ Dialect of the Erewash Valley in the English
Nominee; NY Times Critic’s Pick Midlands); also dramaturgy

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 Amy Stoller ★ Suiting Words to Actions since 1995
917-319-7448 ★ amystoller@stollersystem.com ★ www.stollersystem.com
RESIDENT DIALECT DESIGNER, Mint Theater Company, NYC (cont’d):
The Mountains Look Different, by Micheál mac Liammóir, US
premiere ★ NY Times Critic’s Pick
Hindle Wakes ★ Drama Desk & Off Broadway Alliance
awards nominee
A Day by the Sea ★ NY Times Critic’s Pick ★ Ten Best of
2016: Wall Street Journal
Women Without Men ★ Five Drama Desk, two Lucille Lortel,
& Off Broadway Alliance nominations
London Wall ★ Drama Desk & Lucille Lortel Nominee;
NY Times & Time Out NY Critics’ Picks
Teresa Deevy Project: three full-length plays; four one-acts;
including Wife to James Whelan ★ TimeOut New York &
New York Magazine Critics’ Picks
The Fifth Column ★ World Premiere by Ernest Hemingway
WITH ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
Notes from the Field (Second Stage, NYC; preceded by
several years in development) ★ Lucille Lortel Award for
Solo Show ★ Obie Special Citation ★ NY Times Critics’
Pick ★ Best Theatre of 2016: NY Times, Time, Vulture,
TimeOut NY, NorthJersey.com, Towleroad; BuzzFeed;
The Forward; WBUR; Theater Pizzazz
Let Me Down Easy (Second Stage; National Tour; preceded
by World Premiere, Long Wharf, other developmental)
★ NY Times Critics’ Pick
Talking About Race (Public Theater; Aspen Ideas Festival)
Watching Wilson and Watson (World Science Festival)
On Grace (San Francisco; Chicago)
OTHER WORLD PREMIERES
Love All (La Jolla Playhouse), by Anna Deavere Smith; dir.
Marc Bruni
American Jade (Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA),
written and performed by Jodi Long.
A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington Theatre Co.) by
Ken Urban; dir. Colman Domingo
The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence (Playwrights
Horizons), by Madeleine George; dir. Leigh Silverman ★
Pulitzer Finalist for Drama
A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf) by Paula Vogel;
dir. Tina Landau
Coming Home (Long Wharf Theatre) by Athol Fugard;
with Colman Domingo
Agnes Under the Big Top (Long Wharf Theatre) by
Aditi Brennan Kapil; dir. Eric Ting
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Connemara Irish, including Gaeilge (Irish language); also
dramaturgy
Lancashire (working-class, middle-class, upper-middle-class)
& RP; also dramaturgy)
RP, Scottish; also dramaturgy
Irish (various), French, RP; also dramaturgy
RP; London Middle-Class; Cockney; also dramaturgy
Co. Westmeath (Irish Midlands); also dramaturgy
Spanish (Madrid; Asturias; Andalusia)
17+ idiolects (individual speech patterns), including speakers
from New Jersey; Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; North
Charleston & Richland County SC; Stockton, CA; Puerto
Rico; El Salvador; Yurok Tribe, others
20 idiolects, including Lance Armstrong, Eve Ensler, Lauren
Hutton, Gov. Ann Richards, Joel Siegel, others
Four idiolects: Lorraine Hansberry, Mike Wallace, Margaret
Mead, James Baldwin
Two idiolects: James Watson and E.O. Wilson
Various idiolects, including Justice Sandra Day O’Connor;
Rev. Jane Shaw, Rev. Peter Gomes, Imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf, Rabbi David Wolpe
South African, Australian, British English, French, Jamaican,
Texan, others
Scottish; Japanese; Australian; Australian-American
Luganda (Ugandan)
Cultivated New England; RP; multiple character voice
differentiation
American northernss and southern accents for Caucasian and
African-American characters; German & Ashkenazi
Hebrew language
Cape Coloured (Afrikaans)
Liberian; Bulgarian; Indian (Asia)
Last updated: November 7, 2023
 Amy Stoller ★ Suiting Words to Actions since 1995
917-319-7448 ★ amystoller@stollersystem.com ★ www.stollersystem.com

OTHER WORLD PREMIERES (cont’d.)

Flora, an Opera (Spoleto Festival USA); dir. John Pasco
Cheer from Chawton (NYC; US/UK Touring)
The Brightness of Heaven aka For Heaven’s Sake! (Cherry
Lane Theatre) dir. Ludovica Villar-Hauser
Rural 18th-century Somerset; Old-fashioned RP
Co-Director. Individual character voices with various English
accents; also dramaturgy
Buffalonian (Buffalo, NY)

OTHER NEW YORK & REGIONAL

The Night of the Iguana (La Femme at Pershing Square
Signature Center, NYC), dir. Emily Mann
Islander (Playhouse 46 at St. Lukes, NYC) ★ NY premiere
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (American Repertory Theater,
Cambridge, MA)
Fires in the Mirror (Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta, GA; livestream)
Ann (Cape May Playhouse, Cape May, NJ)
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (La Femme at St. Clement’s,
NYC), dir. Austin Pendleton
Little Rock (Sheen Center, NYC) ★ NY Times Critic’s Pick
The Miss Education of Jenna Bush (Fringe NYC) ★ Melissa
Rauch ★ Fringe Award, Outstanding Solo Show;
Theatermania Audience Favorite Award
Devil Boys from Beyond (Fringe NYC) ★ Fringe Award,
Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play
Dramaturgy; German and Spanish (languages)
Scots and English dialects; consulted with creators on script
adjustments for US audiences
Multiple idiolects for five actors covering 40+ roles.
Eight idiolects for characters from Australia, Guyana, and
Brooklyn
Idiolect: Governor Ann Richards
St. Louis (middle-class and working class); Memphis, TN;
Missouri German & Euro-German (languages); also
dramaturgy
Arkansas; Boston; idiolects incl. Mike Wallace, Orval Faubus,
others.
Dallas
Mid-Atlantic (1930s movie-star elocution)

UNIONS & PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

OFFICER: Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) | ASSOCIATE EDITOR: International Dialects of English Archive
(IDEA) | BOARD OF ADVISORS: The Shaw Project | MEMBER: American Dialect Society; Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the
Americas; League of Professional Theatre Women; Women in the Arts & Media Coalition; Theater Resources Unlimited;
Actors’ Equity Association; SAG-AFTRA; ARRAY Crew

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