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Miranda
- Rate Ksh. 6,473
- Response 1h

Ksh. 6,473/hr
1st lesson free
Experienced tutor in English accent reduction in Santa Monica, Miranda offers private lessons tailored to your needs.
Lesson location
- Online
Recommended
Miranda is a respected member of our tutor community. She is highly recommended for her commitment and the quality of her lessons. An excellent choice to progress with confidence.
About Miranda
I am an award winning American actress, with three TV series regular roles, in my early LA career. I’ve lived the last 25 years overseas and I speak 3 languages well, and a couple others, laughingly. From 1998-2000 I co-founded and project managed the set up a Holistic Primary School in England. And I’ve now returned to my US acting career, having worked on productions in France, Netherlands, Romania, and England, with a 3rd award winning film since 2015, touring the indie film festival circuit.
Dialect coaching gives the actor the tools needed to successfully act in a General American (GenAm) dialect, with the option for numerous regional American dialects.
Accent Reduction gives the ESL actor, public speaker, or business person, the tools needed to connect, internationally, in a progressively diverse world market.
When I signed with a boutique talent agency in London, they asked me to coach their clients on American Dialects. I loved it and so did they. Thus my practice was born!
I have extensive training and experience over a 30 year+ career.
My training started in the degree program at UC Santa Barbara. I have a very good ear and I speak a few languages. I’ve lived in several countries and I know intimately that portraying a character with a dialect other than one’s own, requires cultural and physical changes as well as a transformation of sound and rhythm.
About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
After our initia two hour session, I build an organic tailored session to suit your specific needs, along a guideline of course work that assures you create a firm foundation to play from.
We'll work on the main tongue, lip and mouth positions on all of the key vowel and consonant shifts of the target dialect.
We will practice accurate speech, intonation, rhythm patterns particular to each target dialect.
You will receive 14 pages of course material for an 8 week GenAm basic program, for practice and refinement.
And much more.
All of my students have been actors wanting to either gain command of GenAm or ESL students wanting to reduce their accent when speaking English.
Personal, in depth, specific coaching is the fastest way to master a dialect. If money is short, start by using online resources to practice. Once you feel you’re ‘pretty good’ then book a series of coaching sessions with a pro, to make sure that your own personal quirks are tagged and addressed.
I love the neat sexy little web series, Mirrors, that we filmed in London, with me doing an English dialect. We’re just waiting to hear about funding for the next 8 episodes! It’s hilarious!
A few things worth thinking about before reaching out
As with any new skill, identify your goal and commit to it.
If your goal is to simply feel more comfortable auditioning for a role with a different dialect, then GenAm is a good place to start.
If you wish to nail a specific audition piece after you’ve accomplished a GenAm sound pallet, then we will focus on that dialect for that audition, specifically.
If you are an ESL public speaker or business manager and you would love to communicate with a crowd of diverse native langauge speakers, then we focus on reducing your accent.
Once you are willing to commit to your goal, book the sessions and dive in!
Recommendations
Recommendations come from relatives, friends and acquaintances of the teacher
Miranda Wilson is an excellent dialect coach. She’s relaxed, but has a scrupulous attention to detail. She approaches American dialect coaching with the view that this is not merely a different sound to British English, but a different language. Coaching with her will make any actor more confident about approaching a script requiring American dialect.
Miranda is a proven industry expert and actress with extensive knowledge on the American accent and how to get it down the best way possible. Her sessions are precise, practical and above all, she’s a patient accent coach. An excellent accent coach is so valuable in the acting game, and if want to nail the GenAm accent, she would be my go-to option.
Miranda is a fantastic dialect Coach and has great knowledge about the different accents ( Dialects) in the US. Her aim is to make you sound fully American, so you’re able to improvise in GenAm which gives you more freedom as an actor. After only a few lessons I already felt a lot more confident going for American parts.
I worked with Miranda in London to brush up on my American accent. I loved the relaxed atmosphere. Having a conversational-style session really helped me to understand the natural rhythm of the dialect and to work on ‘tricky sounds’ that pop up when you least expect them. Having lived in London, Miranda knows a lot of the sounds and words that can trip up a British-speaker and knows the tips and tricks to help deal with them when they come up.
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Rates
Rate
- Ksh. 6,473
Pack prices
- 5h: Ksh. 30
- 10h: Ksh. 60
free lessons
The first free lesson with Miranda will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
online
- Ksh. 6,473/h
Details
Session Format
One-to-One in person and Skype coaching available.
Small group intensives on the GenAm dialect, available on request.
Auditions and Performances
We’ll hard-wire the GenAm or Regional dialect onto your audition sides / character dialogue.
We’ll tape the audition scene, at submission level if self-taping, so you have the correct dialect on both sides of the dialogue.
Rates
All sessions are charged at the same hourly rate.
Block of 8 hours, 10% discount
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