All actors should learn narrow transcription. And I mean super narrow, with multiple diacritics hanging off of every symbol like […]
I wrote a thing. Two things, I guess: two short texts for eliciting useful accent samples. Here they are: Dali’s
(Roots, part III) The teaching of any prescriptive speech pattern as some sort of basis or ‘neutral’ will inevitably encode
The other day I wrote a bit about some of the intellectual and linguistic foundations of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Today
I’ve been thinking a lot this fall about the roots of this work. Unitarian Universalists like to talk about roots
I studied acting with the great Earle Gister some years back. He was a brilliant man, and his way
This post is a part two of an answer to a question posed by Kim Mappleswitch. Part one is
Kim Mappleswitch writes: At The High Standards Academy of Dramatic Art (HSADA) we’re required to teach Standard Stage as a
We’ve just established an email address for the blog. You can now write in with questions to: ktspeechblog@gmail.com We’d love
One thing I think we’d like to do with this blog is share ideas for new and fun Omnish exercises.
