Last month, I had the opportunity to teach the 25th offering of Experiencing Speech in NYC with two wonderful co-teachers, Nathan Crocker and Dayle Towarnicky. Experiencing Speech is a 6-day Knight-Thompson Speechwork workshop. It lays out a descriptive approach to speech training for actors (or anyone else who uses their voice professionally) that could be applied to any accent of any language. This year, we had 29 participants - the largest group we’ve ever had! We covered the philosophy behind KTS, vocal anatomy, the physical actions of speech sounds, descriptive phonetics, and the skills of adjusting linguistic detail in speech. Teaching these workshops always teaches me, and I’m grateful to everyone who joined us.
Here we are gurning:
