I’m Chris Lang.
I’m a dialect and accent coach. 21+ years in film, television, and theatre. I help actors build accents that live in their body, not ones they have to think about while they’re trying to act.
If you’re picturing someone in a suit behind a desk, that’s not me. I’m probably in a hoodie. We’re probably laughing. The work is serious. The room isn’t.
What this actually looks like.
Most of my work is with actors. Private coaching, audition prep, long-term skill building, production work from pre through post. I work with actors just starting out. I work with first-time series regulars. I work with people whose faces you’d recognize immediately. The process is the same regardless.
I’ve coached accents for film and television productions at every scale. Studio features, independent films, streaming series, shorts. I’ve been the dialect coach an actor calls for their career, and I’ve been the one a production hires to cover the whole cast. Both versions of the work require the same thing: an ear that catches everything and a willingness to chase the smallest detail. Accent work lives in the details. You never know which piece of the puzzle is the one that clicks a performance into place, because every actor is different and every actor responds differently to the way an accent lives in their body. You have to be willing to look at all of it.
What that looks like in practice: we get on a call, we work, we laugh, I push you, I give you permission to be terrible at it for a while, and then something clicks. I’m not going to make you feel dumb. I’m going to make you feel like this is possible. Because it is.
I also work with speakers and presenters. TED talks, keynotes, conference presentations. Voice, breath, clarity, presence, the ability to hold a room. Same skill set, different stage.
Where this comes from.
My voice and speech work draws from Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight-Thompson Speechwork. I teach from the perspectives of both. I’ve also trained in Linklater, Lessac, Roy Hart, Colaianni, Macaulay, and the Vanderway Method.
My acting training runs just as deep. Stanislavski, Meisner, Uta Hagen, Practical Aesthetics, the work of Larry Moss and Howard Fine, the Acting Matrix technique. I bring that up because it matters.
Most dialect coaches come from voice and speech. I come from voice and speech and acting. That means I can sit across from an actor trained in any method and speak their language. I know where the accent work needs to plug in to their process, not mine.
21 years of all of that in the room with actors. That’s where the methodology comes from. Not any one school of thought. All of them, tested over a long time against a lot of very different actors doing a lot of very different work.
Get in touch.
Every consultation starts the same way. Before we talk about accents, I want to know about you. Who you are, where you’re coming from, what you’re working on. We start there.
I look forward to getting to know you.