Dialect Coaching

For actors and dialect-coaches-in-training

More than a decade of experience as a linguist and language teacher help me to craft the language variety necessary for your project, be it theater, film, musical performance, or anything where you need a bespoke approach. Past projects have included celebrity idiolects, reconstructions of historical pronunciation patterns, and language coaching. Specialties include 20th century American English and Russian varieties.

Coaching is also available to anyone studying phonetics as part of their academic career or training in dialect work.

Language Consulting

American English, Russian, Sokovian

Consulting includes going over your script to check for linguistic and cultural accuracy, sensitivity reading, language creation, and even voice over and ADR. If it’s about language, lets’ talk about it!

Major projects have included creating the Sokovian language for Marvel Cinematic Universe series WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as well as Russian translation and dialect consulting for Murder on the Orient Express and Gemini Man.

Translation and Interpreting

Russian-ENglish / English-Russian

As a native speaker of Standard American English with near-native Standard Russian, I enjoy taking on creative translation projects, particularly where both accuracy and style are a priority. My experience includes translating for the Polytech Museum (topics include linguistics, space science, and physics) and interpreting for the Moscow Art Theater (acting, stage combat, voice and singing, movement, theater history, stage design, costume history and design).