ABOUT LEIGH DILLON
SAG – AFTRA, AEA, UUP
Leigh Dillon is an award winning Voice, Speech, Dialect Coach and Accent Reduction Specialist, who has trained actors and executives for over 30 years.
Select Companies:
Sony, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Amazon, Netflix, CBS, ABC Studios, NBCUniversal, DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, FX, Fox 21, Lifetime, Plan B, New Regency, Regency, Focus Films, Lionsgate, Paramount, Columbia, Clear Channel Media, Estee Lauder International, Tiffany & Co, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, NY Public Theatre, Primary Stages, Jewish Rep, American Jewish Theatre, Paper Mill, George Street, Portland Stage, Capital Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, PlayMakers Rep, La Jolla, American Music Theatre Fest, Feld Entertainment
Select Theater:
Floyd Collins (Tina Landau & Adam Guettel) NY Premiere, Playwrights Horizons;Winner: Lucille Lortel & Obie Awards, Outstanding Musical – Dialect Coach
Violet (dir: Susan Schulman) NY Premiere @ Playwrights Horizons; Winner: Lucille Lortel & Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, Best Musical – Dialect Coach
Floyd Collins (dir: Tina Landau /American Music Theatre Festival) – Dialect Coach
States of Independence (dir: Tina Landau /American Music Theatre Festival) – Dialect Coach
SEVEN (dir: Julie Taymor @ Women In The World Summit) – Dialect Coach to Archie Panjabi with Meryl Streep, Marcia Gay Harden & Shohreh Aghdashloo
Chicago on Broadway Dialect Coach to Marco Zunino
Awake and Sing! (Jewish Rep) – Dialect Coach to Amanda Peet
Bovver Boys (Primary Stages) – Dialect to Calista Flockhart
My Children! My Africa! (Portland Stage) – Dialect Coach to Marin Hinkle & Cast
Absurd Person Singular (dir: John P. Holms @ Capital Rep) – Dialect Coach
Twelfth Night (dir. Edward Berkeley) – Dialect Coach, OP Shakespeare
Richard III Dialect Coach to Ayelet Zurer as Lady Anne
The Comedy of Errors (dir Jon Jory, Actors Theatre Louisville) – Text Coach
The New Rude Mechanicals (Artistic Dir: Bob Hall & John Pynchon Holms) – Voice & Dialect Coach
Faculty:
Associate Professor Emerita – Conservatory of Theatre Arts, SUNY College @ Purchase
Formerly – Head of Voice & Speech; Professor of Voice, Speech, Dialects & Shakespeare; Interim Chair of Acting, SUNY College @ Purchase
Actors Studio Drama School, MFA Program (James Lipton)
New York University’s Tisch School Of The Arts
New Actors Workshop (Paul Sills, Mike Nichols, George Morrison)
Classic Stage Co (Carey Perloff, David Esbjornson)
Circle In The Square Theatre School – 22 years (Theodore Mann)
Select Film and Television Credits on IMDB:
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