Matthew
General Key Responsibilities
· Preparation of each student’s class to suit the individual student’s needs.
· Adaption of teaching style to each student’s needs.
· Creating a definitive structure for each class to ensure maximum student potential is reached within a specific time frame.
· Ensuring repetition of previous class work to make sure student/teacher attainment goals are reached.
· Regular setting out of class tasks and homework to ensure the student makes the necessary progress needed to achieve his/her goals.
· Continual assessment of the student’s progress through tests and student/teacher discussion
Credits
ACCENT/DIALECT COACHING FOR:
· Actors auditioning for West End Productions Never Forget (Manchester), Chicago (General American), and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Australian)
· Actors Auditioning for Productions At The Royal Court Theatre London
· Actors Auditioning for Independent and feature films (RP and American)
· Actors working on the 2009 Virgin Trains Commercial (Scottish)
· Actors auditioning for 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:
· The Adam and Joe Show (BBC6)
· Radio BBC WM
· BBC Radio Sheffield
QUALIFICATIONS
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Bristol Old vic theatre school
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University of Freiburg (During Study at Aberystwyth university)
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EXPERIENCES
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| 01/08-Present | 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. · Company Employers include: Capital Languages, Debello House and BMC Software, HSBC, Barclay Capital, JP Morgan and Clifford Chance |
| 01/08-Present | ACCENT COACH FOR ACTORS/PRESENTERS | · Teaching 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 |
| 09/08-Present | German Tutor for Listen and Learn and Language Trainers London. | · Teaching students from various backgrounds such as business and general in different areas of London |
GENERAL AVAILABILITY
Pre 12pm
12 - 5pm
After 5pmSUBJECTS OFFERED