Phyllis Cohen
General American Accent Workshops
Phyllis Cohen is a Knight-Thompson Speechwork Certified Dialect Coach. She teaches online workshops in the General American Accent through the Professional Actors Lab in Toronto, as well as a variety of other online dialect workshops. Besides coaching native English-speaking actors privately, she has a busy client list of non-native English speakers who wish to learn the General American Accent for work in and beyond the entertainment industry.
Before focusing her energy on dialect coaching, she had a successful career as an award-winning performer working in English and French, touring across Canada, and working in Los Angeles. On her return to Toronto, she worked as a singing coach and wrote music for theatre, film, and radio. She was a faculty member in the Undergraduate and Graduate Departments of Theatre at York University for nine years.
Phyllis is one of Toronto’s most sought-after dialect coaches, garnering testimonials that call her “fantastic” and “amazing,” and her workshops “awesome,” “the class that keeps on giving,” “time and money well spent.”
For more information, please visit www.canadianpronunciationcoach.com
