The results of my coaching have often been critically acclaimed by the media,
a rarity when dialects are usually only mentioned when they've been poorly executed.
Performers trained by me have also won multiple awards for their performances.
Mainstage Theatre Reviews
TOT MOM with Essie Davis
ALL MY SONS with Robyn Nevin
At STC with Steven Soderbergh
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SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY
TOT MOM: director Steven Soderbergh - winner of Academy Award for Best Director (Traffic) Dialect Coach: cast of 10 actors playing 50 real life Americans * New York Times: "Flawless mannerisms and accent" * Stage Noise: "The varied US regional & class voices astonished visiting Americans" * 3D World Magazine: "Triumphant work by dialect coach Jennifer White" ALL MY SONS: director Kip Williams - current STC Artistic Director Acting Dialect & Voice Coach: Michigan accents * Stage Noise: "Also integral to the production is ... resident voice and dialect coach Charmian Gradwell’s invisible work (and acting in her two week absence, Jennifer White). It sets the voices in middle America without apparent effort, which is remarkable." AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY: director Anna D Shapiro - Steppenwolf Theatre Company & Sydney Theatre Company, Tony Award winning production Dialect Coach to Australian understudies: Oklahoman accents * Crikey theatre blog: "Then down the stairs shuffled Australian actress Judi Farr as Violet. Under the influence of speech altering drugs it was initially difficult to hear how she was managing a regional American accent. Her next entrance not only confirmed that she had nailed the accent BUT that she had completely pulled on the skin and inhabited the body of the best written female character in the modern American theatre canon." |
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BELVOIR STREET THEATRE
MORTIDO: director Leticia Cáceres * Broadway World: "The play was written with the well-known film and television actor, Colin Friels, in mind for the main roles, and he plays both Detective Grubbe and German drug baron Heinrich Barbie, as well as two smaller roles, Christos Limbious, a Greek ex-dealer, and Bratislav Ackervik, a Serbian-Australian. Friels switches between roles with such skill that it seems easy, which it definitely is not. Each time he switches, the character and the accent is totally consistent with the previous appearance, and all are thoroughly believable." |
MORTIDO with Colin Friels
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SOLOMON & MARION
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MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY
SOLOMON & MARION: director Pamela Rabe *Australian Stage: "Her South African accent unfaltering" GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY THE SEA PROJECT: director Paige Rattray *Arts Hub: "Impeccable Polish accents" |
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ENSEMBLE THEATRE
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS: director Mark Kilmurry *Samesame.com.au: "Jennifer White has helped develop faultless accents. You close your eyes and you believe you are in New York experiencing the various dialects you hear walking down the street" RED LINE PRODUCTIONS @ OLD FITZ THEATRE THE WOLVES: director Jessica Arthur *Stage Noise: "The dazzling choreography of the athletic interchanges and intertwined dialogue is seamless and brilliantly executed by the cast. The twists and loops of direction and language are adept and exhilarating to see and hear ... assisted by great work from dialect coach Jennifer White" |
THE WOLVES
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Showreel: Film & Television
Film & Television Coaching
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This showreel provides a sample of dialects coached for film and television including:
* Peter Rabbit starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Sam Neill & Elizabeth Debicki * Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner * Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar * Brendon Cowell's The Outlaw Michael Howe * Channel 7 TV's Packed to the Rafters * ABC TV's Darwin's Brave New World |
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Recent trailers:
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Peter Rabbit: Dialect Coach. Director Will Gluck, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Sam Neill & Elizabeth Debicki. Released 2018, Sony Pictures
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Wonder Park: Dialect Coach - ADR (Australia). Starring Jennnifer Garner, Matthew Broderick, Mila Kunis & John Oliver. Release date April 2019, Paramount Pictures
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A Place To Call Home (Season 6): Dialect Coach for Maya Stange as Delia Craig. Director Jeremy Sims. Released 2018, Foxtel TV & Channel 7 Australia
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Cargo: Dialogue Coach. Directed by Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke, starring Martin Freeman, Susie Porter, Simone Landers & David Gulpilil. Released 2018, Causeway Films
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Showreel: Theatre & Musical Theatre
Theatre & Musical Theatre Coaching
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This showreel provides a sample of dialects coached for theatre & musical theatre including:
* Sydney Theatre Company: Tot Mom dir. Steven Soderbergh * Melbourne Theatre Company: Solomon & Marion dir. Pamela Rabe * TML Enterprises/Australian Tour: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang dir. Roger Hodgman * Australian Tour: West Side Story dir. Joey McKneely (Broadway director/choreographer) * Griffin Theatre: The Sea Project dir Paige Rattray * Hayes Theatre: Miracle City dir. Darren Yap * Ensemble Theatre: The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Little Dog Laughed, My Wonderful Day |
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Showreel: Languages
International Events Coaching: Foreign Languages
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This showreel provides a sample of foreign languages coached for internationally televised live events including:
* 2015 Netball World Cup Opening Ceremony, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia: I was booked to coach Australian choir VOX in the pronunciation of 7 non-English National Anthems: Malawi, New Zealand, Samoa, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Wales. Please visit the Testimonials tab for a review from the Creative Director of the Opening Ceremony. I have also coached: * The French National Anthem 'La Marseillaise' for the International Rugby World Cup match between France and Australia. * Actors & singers to perform in languages for their roles in film, television, theatre, musicals and cabarets. |
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