About Your Trainer Ginny Kopf – ACCENTS. DIALECTS AND SPEECH COACHING

About Voice Expert and your trainer, Ginny Kopf:

A voice and speech coach for actors, singers, voice actors, public speakers, executives, recording artists, and broadcasters for over 35 years
Has trained thousands of clients one-on-one over Zoom or in person
Has given literally thousands of workshops/seminars nationally

Has dialect coached live shows throughout Disney properties and Universal Studios
Has designed speech improvement and vocal image programs for such corporate clients as Walt Disney, United Telephone, Florida Power, NASA, Tupperware Int’l, AT&T, Universal Studios, and numerous others (full client list below)
Tenured College Professor at Valencia College, Orlando, with courses in Public Speaking, Voice and Diction, Public Speaking, Stage Dialects, Acting, Voiceover, Improv, and Accent Reduction for over 35 years
Holds a Masters Degree in Theatre Voice and a 2nd MFA in Vocal Health
Author of 3 textbooks, including The Dialect Handbook, and a dozen journal articles (For description of published works, see below)

Published works by Ginny Kopf

[available through Voiceprint Publishing. Contact the author directly]

1. The Dialect Handbook: Learning, researching and performing a dialect role

[$19.95+ shipping]

Invaluable as a course textbook or individual actor’s use, The Dialect Handbook is the only text of its kind. It offers a clear step-by-step process for creating a believable dialect role, from pre-auditions, through character research, through rehearsals and polishing the performance. This approach to learning dialects shows you how to study the culture of a people, so that you understand not merely how to do the sounds of the dialect, but WHY the person speaks the way they do. Research includes the body language, gestures, dance, and music of a culture. This book has proven highly effective as a course textbook around the world.
The book features:
“The Dialect Directory,” listing hundreds of feature films, TV series, documentaries, and audio tapes for your research of over 35 different dialects. It also lists books about each culture, and foreign dictionaries.
Also a complete Bibliography of Resources about dialect acquisition, with descriptions of each of the dialect books and tapes, with tips on how to use them and where to find them.

2. Accent Reduction Workshop for Professional American Speech:

A book plus audio recordings [$39.95 + shipping]

Ginny Kopf has designed a program for anyone who wants to improve the clarity and fluency of their American speech, for your most professional image. In each exercise, Ginny demonstrates the words and sentences several times, gives coached instructions, and then leaves a space for you to repeat the phrase.

The accompanying 63-page book helps you to follow along, as well as offering additional instruction. The first section of the book is a "Quick Guide to Using the Accent Reduction Workshop," in which she gives you suggestions on what parts of the audio recorded drills you should focus on, according to your native language or American regionalism.

3. “S” Drills: 6 eas-s-s-s-s-s-s-y lessons on audio recordings

[$15+shipping]

A 40-minute CD to help those with a hissing lisp find their best “s.” There are dozens of drills along with coaching that makes tongue placement clear, and encourages the speaker that they really can “get the hiss out” of their speech.

4. Articles by Ginny Kopf:

In VASTA Journal 2001 "Building Up Your Business Clientele"
2003 "How to Coach the Business Client”
2004 “How to Give Winning Workshops”
In Theatre Magazine 2008 “Director Teams Up with Dialect Coach”
In In Focus newsletter ‘90s-2000s Numerous short articles with vocal tips for actors