The Everyman Theatre’s latest show is an Irish comedy called Outside Mullingar. The Everyman’s dialect coach, Gary Logan, is helping the actors master the particular regional accent called for in the play. Today, he stopped by Studio A to offer Tom a few tips on sounding authentically Irish.
Logan has worked as a voice and dialect coach for a variety of leading U.S. and Canadian theater groups, including The Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada, the Folger Theater, the Shakespeare Theater Company, Arena Stage, and the Kennedy Center. Logan's book, The Eloquent Shakespeare: A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works, with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue is considered essential reading by many of the North American theater companies producing Shakespeare's plays.