Expertise:

pronunciation, pronunciation instruction, actors, english, accents, dialects, voice

Language(s) spoken:

English, French (able to conduct interviews in French)

Suzanne has been teaching accents, dialects, and voice and speech for over 15 years, both here in Montreal and in her home town of NYC. She has a BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University where she received the Thomas Auclair Memorial Scholarship Award and the Judith Light West Coast Drama Alumni Award for excellence in acting. She has worked in NYC in theatre, TV, and film, including off-Broadway plays The Maiden's Prayer, The Tempest, Spike Heels, and films such as, Puccini For Beginners, A Most Violent Year, and of course, every NY actor's calling card, Law & Order. Suzanne is most proud of her voice over work in dozens of national US commercials for TV and radio, video games and audiobooks. 

Voice work and accents have always been a major passion, and she completed her MA at Concordia in 2016 in Applied Linguistics, where she combined her years of experience as an actor and coach of accents and dialects with the applied science and research of linguistics. She drew from the work of Dudley Knight and developed a sensory based speech curriculum, testing it out on Francophone actors in Montreal for her thesis research. Her research article, Engaging the Senses, is published in the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation. Some of her accent and dialect clients include Mylene Mackay, Noemie O'Farrell, Zachary Quinto, Lynn Collins, Tommar Wilson (Hamilton), Sophie Sumner (America's Next Top Model), and many others.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

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