About Marina

Marina Tyndall is a voice coach specialising in accent and dialect.  She works with actors, singers and speakers of English as a Second Language to achieve a new or modified accent.

She is based in Central London at Garden Studios, Covent Garden, and also sees clients at her office in Brighton. She coaches most clients on a one-to-one basis, also running tailored group classes for a number of different accents. 

Marina Tyndall teaches US, UK and European Accents on BA Collaborative and Devised Theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama. She also coaches British Accents, Speech and Phonetics to US trainee actors from Rutgers Theatre Conservatory at Shakespeare's Globe Education. 

Recent projects include coaching the voice of Alan Bennett for Lady In The Van, the voices of JFK, Einstein and HG Wells for Heathcote Williams' Zanzibar Cats, Tennessee Williams' The Two Character Play, assisting Julia Wilson-Dickson on West End production Enron, BBC's Blue Peter and feature film Soul Boy (2010). 

Marina presented at the 2010 Mexico City VASTA Conference on Dialect Coaching the Bilingual Actor: Challenges and Strategies and will be returning to lead a workshop at the 2011 Chicago VASTA Conference on the topic of MTV Meets IPA: A Music Video Adventure in the Art and Science of Singing Backwards. 

Marina holds an MA Voice Studies, IPA Certificate in Phonetics and a CELTA (Cambridge Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults). She is South-East England Associate Editor for IDEA (International Dialects of English Archive). She is a member of both VASTA (Voice And Speech Trainers' Association) and ICV (The International Centre for Voice).

For film and television production enquiries, Marina Tyndall is represented by Sarah Upson at specialist voice coach agency Upson Edwards.