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SUSAN CAMERON
Speech and Voice Teacher:
Fifteen years experience teaching accent reduction (through phonetics) and voice classes (Linklater technique) to students as diverse as: Prime Minister Hosokawa of Japan; New York University undergraduates (Master Teacher); MFA students at The Actor’s Studio (through New School University), Circle In The Square Theatre School, The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute (students from more than twenty different countries), officials from Japan’s Consulate, American Express Asian corporate executives, Japanese doctors at Beth Israel Hospital and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospitals, and business people from all over the world.
Education:
Masters Of Fine Arts (MFA) in Acting from Yale School of Drama
Bachelor Of Arts (BA) in Theatre and English - Frostburg University
( graduated Magna Cum Laude)
Special Credits:
September 1993
United Nations - Coach for Prime Minister Hosokawa’s United Nations Address - the first address ever given in English by a Japanese Prime Minister.
January 2004
Television Appearance, featured on NHK, Japanese television, coaching Rae Kikukawa in accent reduction
Teaching Experience:
January, 2003 – Present
New York University at Cap 21 - Master Teacher of Speech and Voice
Courses taught:
- Third Year Dialects for Americans
- (British, Cockney, Southern Irish, Southern American, Texas, New York
, French, German, Russian)
- Second Year Voice, Speech, and Shakespeare for Americans
- (Linklater and Skinner Methods)
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September, 1999 - Present
Masters Of Fine Arts Program at The Actor’s Studio
Courses taught:
- Accent Reduction to Second and Third Year MFA Candidates
- (Concentration on students from Asia and Europe)
- Second Year Dialects for Americans (Standard British, Cockney, American Southern, Texas, Irish, New York, Chicago)
- Dialect Coach for Actor’s Studio Repertory Season (all dialects)
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May, 1999 – November 2004
Consultant for Japanese resident doctors at Beth Israel Hospital, NYC. Accent Reduction through phonetics.
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September, 2002 – January 2003
New York University, Tisch School Of The Arts
Courses taught:
- Collaboration Practicum: Improvisation For The Camera
- (creating film scripts through improv using the techniques of filmmaker Mike Leigh)
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September, 2001 – May 2002
Circle In The Square Theatre School (post-graduate training)
Courses taught:
- Accent Reduction to students from all over the world
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January 1991- May 1994
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
Courses taught:
- Second Year Speech and Accent Reduction
- Third Year Advanced Speech - Dialects
- (Standard British, Cockney, American Southern, Irish, German, French, New York)
- Third Year Voice and Text Work
- Linklater Method and Shakespeare text
The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute
Courses taught:
- Accent Reduction to students from all over the world
- Dialects
- (Standard British, Cockney, American Southern, Irish, New York)
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September 1991 - June 1992
American Express, Inc.
- Corporate speech consultant for Asian business persons
- (taught Accent Reduction through phonetics)
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September, 1990- Present
Speech, Voice, and Accent Elimination - Private practice. |
September, 1990 - Present
Fifteen years in Private Practice of acting and audition/monologue coaching. |
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