Dialect Coach

Paul
Wagar

(he/him)

Trained in England and worked as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the New Shakespeare Company, the BBC, and in Canada with the Stratford Festival. As Artistic Director, he headed the Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre and Ark Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Directing credits include The Taming of the Shrew for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Cloud 9 in New York City, and The Lover in Chicago. He wrote the screenplay for, co-produced, and directed the film Shakespeare’s Merchant. He wrote Acting With Text: A Classical Approach to Actor Training, and coaches for theatre, film, and television; film work includes Money Talks, Next Friday, and Cold Comes the Night with Bryan Cranston. He has coached numerous productions for the Geffen Playhouse, frequently working with Jo Bonney, and was the text and dialect coach for The Inheritance. He was head of Voice at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, taught for the British American Drama Academy summer program in Oxford for 9 years, and was for many years an Adjunct Professor in the school of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA.