MATT SIMANDL

Address:
Flat 210
Wharfside Point South
4 Prestons Road
London, E14 9EL

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Tel:     07738442080
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Gender:       Male
Nationality:  British

Accents: R.P, Birmingham, Cockney, N.Y., Gen. American, Californian, Southern American, Russian, Australian, New Zealand, German, Austrian, Liverpool, Yorkshire, Manchester, Lancashire, Newcastle, Welsh, Scottish & Irish dialects

Education, Professional Qualifications and Skills

• 2006-2008 Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

• 2 yr. Professional Studies Diploma in Professional Acting (including studies in Voice, Voice application and Accents and Dialects including RP/Actor’s Neutral)

• 2001-2004 University of wales, aberystwyth

• BA (Hons) in Drama (UK Upper Second Class)

Professional work and skills

01/08-Present  freelance elocution Teacher for Individuals and Groups

• Private one to one and group elocution lessons catering to students from abroad and the UK

• Teaching RP through the phonetic alphabet

• In addition to this, giving instruction on the correct shaping of the mouth and lips, and the placing of the tongue in relation to the teeth to form the vowel sounds and consonants of RP

• Initial teaching of sentences containing each phonetic sound of RP and then going onto further text work.

• Through text work, teaching intonation as well as the correct formation of the sounds of RP

• Going away from text work onto interview type scenarios to allow the student to speak as themselves using RP with a naturalness and fluency.

01/08-Present  freelance Accent Coach for Actors

• Freelance Accent Coach to groups/individual actors

• Teaching of numerous global accents for auditions

• Teaching actors accents through the comparison of the phonetic sounds of RP and those of the new accent they are learning and seeing how they differ.

• Ensuring the actor can produce the newly learned sounds through repetition and correction until proficient

• Working on the intonation/tune of the accent to bring the accent work to completion

• Working on audition scripts in the new accent and ensuring all sounds and intonation/tune are correct

CREDITS

Accent/Dialect Coaching For:

• West End Productions Never Forget (Manchester), Chicago (General American), and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Australian)

• The Royal Court Theatre London

• Independent and feature films (RP and American)

• The recent Virgin Trains Commercial (Scottish)

• BBC and ITV dramas including Jack the Ripper (Northern)

• Non-native Actors, teaching RP/Elocution

• Individuals and groups of non-native Business people teaching RP/Elocution

• Groups of Acting Students at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (American)                                                  

• Channel 4 Presenter Pete Nottage (a range of accents)

Radio Appearances For Accent Work:                                   

• The Adam and Joe Show (BBC6)

• Radio BBC WM

• BBC Radio Sheffield

Professional Acting:           

• Various in the English Samurai for Thelma Holt Ltd.

• German Waiter in Max and the Baroness for Evergreen Theatrical Productions

• Jeweller in Mistresses for BBC 1/Ecosse Films

• Various in Two Pipe Problems and the Crusty Butler for BBC Radio 4

• Coporate Video work for Top Spin Productions

• Promotional Film for director Kit Lynch Robinson

References

John Wild    
Head of Voice, Alra
Roy Hart voice teacher
Mobile: 07862264386
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John Hartoch
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
2 Downside Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 2XF
0117 973 3535