Dialect-Coaching-History

Dialect Coaching Resume
John M. Rustan, PhD
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Recent Activity
INDIVIDUAL COACHING - STAGE AND FILM DIALECTS

Public Speaking Coaching - in studio
Public Speaking Coaching - Video Conference
Voiceover Coaching - Video Conference
Irish (Southern) - Voiceover client - Video Conference
Oakland Street Dialect - Fillipina Actor auditioning for Oakland Street Fillipina in film.
American South - Hazelhurst, Mississippi - Audition Crimes of the Heart
Audition Coaching - In Studio (Client auditionied for Marin School for the Arts in California, and three programs in London:  Sylvia Young Theatre School, Arts Ed, and Italia Conti. She was accepted to all four programs and will be starting at Arts Ed this Fall, 2020.
Public Speaking - Business Presentations - In Studio
British Southeast - Audition Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
British West Midlands (Nottingham) Video Conference
Scots Audition for Shrek Jr.  Actor won role of Shrek!
Irish (Southern) Video Conference
Chicago South Side
Ozark Mountains
American South - Alabama
Louisiana French Creole Laveau, State and National Award Winner!
British RP
British Middle Class London

RECENT ACCENT REDUCTION/GENERAL AMERICAN COACHING
(Those seeking to reduce an accent and learn General American English accent)
Vietnamese - Video Conference (Seattle)
Korean- Video Conference (San Francisco)
Chinese - Video Conference (San Francisco)
Thai - In Studio
Turkish - Video Conference (San Francisco and Turkey)
Russian - In Studio
Hungarian - Video Conference (San Francisco)
Brazilian Portugese Video Conference (San Francisco)

RECENT PRODUCTION COACHING
British (Yorkshire, RP) The Real Inspector Hound
British (RP, Cockney), Irish, Scots Murder Me Once, CGHS
British RP Miss Bennet, Christmas at Pemberly, Spreckels Theatre
British RP and Cockney A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder, Spreckels Theatre
Puerto Rican  West Side Story, 6th Street Playhouse
German Cabaret, Cinnabar Theatre
Dominican Republic How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, SRJC
Scots, Russian, German, Urban Af Am Shrek, The Musical, SRJC
British (RP, Middle Class, Lancashire) German Black Comedy, CGHS

Dialects Coached
(I will research and coach any dialect)

American Southern
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana French Creole
Ozark Mountain
Oakland Street Dialect
New York
Manhattan
Brooklyn
New Hampshire
Baltimore
Midwest
Chicago South Side
Indiana
Canadian
Elevated Stage Speech
(TransAtlantic)
British
Received Pronunciation (RP)
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Southwest
Southeast
London Middle Class
London Working Class (Cockney)
Stratford
Nottingham

Australian
Queensland
Sydney
South African
Russian
French
German
Irish
Southern
Northern
Scottish
Edinburgh
Highland
Glasgow
Sweedish
Norwegian
Dutch
Spanish
Mexican
Puerto Rican
Brazilian (Portugese)
French Malagasy
Urban African American
Persian
Arabic