Dialect coach Susanne Sulby spends a lot of time listening. The renowned speech expert behind Mare of Easttown and Silver Linings Playbook has built a reputation for helping actors nail the infamously ...

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s ...

"The Brutalist," a film about a Hungarian World War II survivor who rebuilds his life in America, could be the darling of the Oscars this year. Part of the movie's gritty realism is how the actors ...

CHICAGO -- "The Brutalist" is up for 10 Oscars this weekend. That includes nominee Adrien Brody. He's one of the actors who worked with an acclaimed dialect coach from Chicago, for his role as a ...

Dialect coach Sam Chwat, who helped actors and others gain or lose regional accents, as necessary, through his Sam Chwat Speech Center in Manhattan, died March 3 in Manhasset, Long Island, of lymphoma ...