Kara
Tsiaperas

Areas of Expertise

Dialect
Voice

Season 1 Silo - Kara Tsiaperas working Ferdinand Kingsley

Kara specialises in helping actors sound authentically North American to native ears. She coaches regional and ethnic U.S. dialects, as well as dialects in the general American family. Kara is passionate about helping actors find a way into their character's style of speaking. Kara’s technique combines physicality with visual and auditory memory cues. She also tailors her approach to suit the needs of the actor. Her love of American history equips her to coach a variety of American dialects based on the time period, the region and the socio-economic class of the characters. She is able to provide vocal support as well as dialect support for actors.

Kara is originally from California. She started out as an actor, before moving to London to train as a voice coach. After graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in Voice Studies she decided to remain in London, where she now lives with her New Yorker husband, her British daughter and two English cats.

One career highlight was working as the supervising dialect coach on all four seasons of Silo for Apple TV. She regularly moves between film, TV, theatre, video games, commercials and one on one coaching. Kara holds American, British and Cypriot citizenship and is legal to work in the U.S., U.K. and the European Union.

Kara has a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a MFA in acting from the University of California, Davis, and a MA in Voice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Prince William and Kate Middleton attend the gala performance of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and thought the American accents were "incredible and amazing". They felt the British cast "nailed it" with sounding "totally American"

Kara coaching a Texan dialect, BBC Radio Worldwide Service, Crowd Science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yhvdc

Review- A Streetcar Named Desire with Maxine Peake

https://livetheatreuk.co.uk/2016/10/01/review-streetcar-named-desire/

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