ACTING/VOICE

Perhaps you are getting ready for grad school auditions or need help preparing for a role? Do you need to learn an accent or dialect? I’d love to help you! I am an award-winning, MFA graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre School, a member of the Actors Equity Association (AEA), and of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). My teaching is based primarily on the work of Catherine Fitzmaurice.

Don’t leave that audition knowing you could have done better!

PUBLIC SPEAKING SKILLS AND ACCENT REDUCTION

Would you like to overcome your fear of public speaking or take your speaking skills to a new level? Learn professional tips on how your posture, voice, gestures and listening skills can create an easy rapport with your clients and help you gain credibility.

I support and encourage you in ways specifically tailored to your needs. In addition to helping you discover and maximize the strengths you already possess, our plan might include physical, verbal and vocal exercises, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), visualization and relaxation techniques so you can achieve confidence, clarity and calmness.

I am also experienced in teaching accent reduction techniques.
Overview: Learning to speak standard American English is primarily about finding a new Mouth Posture. Mouth Posture is how you use your articulators (lips, soft palate, tongue, etc.) to “shape” your sound. Each accent has a unique Mouth Posture. (For example, in order to speak French correctly, English speakers must learn to bring the lips forward, or for Russian, they must get used to bringing the tongue up and forward). When you find your Mouth Posture for American English, you can think less about specific sound shifts, and more about what you truly wish to say!

Contact me for a free 1/2 hour consultation at ginhammond@hotmail.com OR by phone at (646) 283-8033.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Rates

Private Acting Coaching
$60/hr
$50/hr for Freehold Students

Public Speaking Coaching
$65/hr

Accent Reduction
$65/hr

Public Speaking with Accent Reduction
$85/hr

Private Voice-Over Workshops (limit 12)
$16/hr for 10 hours
*Audio Engineer gets 25% discount
*Workshop "hosts" that coordinate invites and workshop venue attend workshop for free!

Online Voice-Over Feedback (via MP3)
$40/hr

TESTIMONIALS

"... the cast was crazy about you and I am VERY happy with the results. You are obviously incredibly talented." -– Jane Jones Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Repertory Theatre

"Thanks also for being such a wonderful teacher and mentor. I teach for a living, so I know that it isn't nearly as effortless as you made it seem. I can see why you are so successful in the real biz!" -- Diane Lacker

"You rock so hard!! Thank you so much for your help, training, encouragement and support!!! You are the best! I am becoming a bit more confident now and I cannot begin to tell you how appreciative I am for the detailed expertise that you provide. Tremendous you are !!! Invaluable! How can I do another show without you!!!!!" -- Geoffery Simmons (actor)

“You have given me practical techniques that produce results, I can see that your students receive 110% from you and I'm sure feel very lucky to have you.” -- John Milton

"You are an excellent teacher! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It really has meant the world to me and I feel like I am becoming unlocked again. Thank you for showing me the door once again…I am lucky to have worked with you. Thank you!" -- Elizabeth Allen, Actress

"Thanks a million for helping me prep for the video shoot. Words cannot express my gratitude for your generosity. Thank you thank you!" -- Dr. Melody Ivory

“I am also so thankful for having found you as my voice coach - you are honestly terrific.” -- Dr. Tanya Faude-Koivisto

”You have been an amazing teacher and guide throughout this whole process. You are the best." -- Andy Peters, Comedian and Voice-Over Talent

“I wanted to thank you again for the great class, so many valuable things to learn and incorporate and use.” -- Cynthia Campbell

“I want to thank you for the excellent workshop you guys did on Romeo and Juliet. It made a huge difference in their ability to speak and understand what they said. I could not believe the difference in the cast the next day. They ALL gave the workshop high marks. Our show was a success in part due to the contribution you made to these kids. I am very grateful.” -- James McLain

"...you seriously made me feel way more confident and taught me many valuable lessons! You are amazing and awesome…” -- Erin F

"Thank you for your guidance Gin. I'll tell you again how lovely it is to work with someone who is gentle and generous.” -- Jen Taylor (actor/writer)

"I want to thank you one more time for all of your help. The audition was great!" -- Stanko Milov

“Thank you so much for all of your help, notes and encouragement! You have been great, and I just wanted to say thanks.” -- Hilary Pickles (actor)

“when I tried the voice lowering exercise I immediately experienced an improvement in tonal quality and resonance.” -- John Milton

"Thank you so much for helping me to improve my 'actor' voice. It has made a world of difference." -- Phillip Mitchell

"Thanks for an interesting and enlightening class. This was my first exposure to any Freehold (or other acting-based) classes, and I thought it was quite well done. Your patience and encouragement were very much appreciated!" -- Kate Navarro

"Tomorrow we have to do 2 monologues for the artistic director to be placed in classes and because of you I actually feel prepared for this!! Thank you so much for everything you did for me over the summer… you seriously made me feel way more confident and taught me many valuable lessons!  You are amazing and awesome and beautiful and I miss you!!" -- Erin F., AMDA Student

"I wish to say thanks a million for your training, which has put me many bars beyond where I had been. You are indeed a godsend. Nothing in this universe happens out of mistake, and I do count my blessings for having met you. I am so much more confident now in speaking publicly, and I know that the best is yet to come. Again, much thanks to you." -– Nandell Palmer

VOICE-OVER WORKSHOPS

"I want to thank you and share this with you: I had a v-o audition about a week and a half ago at or so Clatter and Din and I just walked in, did it, no script no anything …they handed me the script right then and there and we had like 20 mintues I was like, What did Gin teach me, ok “operative words”, ok “personalize,” ok “good thing bad thing” and that’s all I did, I just remembered everything that you told me, and I just got called by [my agent] that they want me to do it! It’s a really nice, multi-day project… $700 per day. What you taught us, works… I just want to celebrate!" -- Erwin Galan

"And thanks again, Gin for guidance and extending the time, and for really great direction - I think we're all going to be a little spoiled now when we go to work with other people." -- Chris K

"Just want to say that tonight was just fantastic -- I'm still smiling! Great work was done by everyone and special thanks go to Gin for teaching us all so well!" -- Chris D

"Thank you so much for such a wonderful class! We had a blast. Time flew by!!! You gave us a great overview in the time we had allotted. It was comprehensive, specific, and fun. We're all into more classes." -- Annette L