How to Do Accents: About the authors

Jan Haydn Rowles is a Voice and Dialect Coach at the Royal Shakespeare Company. She works freelance for theatre companies nationwide, from numerous productions in the West End to the Manchester Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court and Shakespeare’s Globe. Jan has coached American and British films and TV dramas, documentaries, soaps, comedies, and the reality show Faking It. She also works as a voice-over artist.

Edda Sharpe is Head of Voice and Dialect at the Shaw Festival Theatre in Canada and has worked on over 60 productions there over the past ten years. She has also been the principal dialect teacher on the MA Voice Studies course at Central School of Speech and Drama for eight years. Her skills have been employed on numerous theatre productions, in the West End, nationally and internationally.