Paul Wagar
Dialect Coach
Trained in England, and worked as an actor with The Royal Shakespeare Company; The New Shakespeare Company; the BBC; and, in Canada with the Stratford Festival. As artistic director, he headed the Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre, and Ark Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He also directed The Taming of the Shrew for The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, Cloud 9 in New York, and The Lover, in Chicago. He wrote the screenplay, co-produced, and directed, the film Shakespeare’s Merchant; and wrote Acting With Text, a classical approach to actor training. Films include Money Talks, Next Friday, and Cold Come the Night, with Bryan Cranston. He has coached numerous productions for the Geffen Playhouse, and was the text and dialect coach for The Inheritance. He was head of voice at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, taught for the British American Drama Academy summer program in Oxford for 9 years, and was an adjunct professor at UCLA.