Faculty

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A graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Dwight Bacquie has been teaching Voice and Dialects for almost forty years. Post-graduate training in Voice and Speech/Dialects includes doing Speech-teacher training with Deborah Hecht at NYU-Tisch and The Juilliard School as well as workshops with Richard Neoczym (Grotowski-influenced Voice performance), Patsy Rodenburg, Louis Colaianni and KT Speech. Dwight has taught Voice at First Act Drama School (Montreal), Voice at Fresh Elements School (Toronto), Voice at California State Summer School for the Arts/CSSSA, Accents and Dialects at Stella Adler Academy (Los Angeles), Voice and Dialects for Actors’ Comedy Studio (Los Angeles), “ American Speech “ at Edgemar Center for the Arts (Los Angeles), Voice and Accents/Dialects at The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute (NYC) and was Head of Voice and Speech at New School of Drama (Toronto). Most recently, Dwight taught at The Juilliard School from 2019 2025. Prior to being at Juilliard, he was the senior Speech and Voice instructor at CalArts/California Institute of the Arts. He has also worked as a production coach and private Voice and Speech coach. His private students have included Samantha Mathis, Ramon Camacho, Noah Silver, Megan Boone, Nyambi Nyambi and Patrick Dempsey. His most recent professional coaching credits include working on the world premiere of Donnetta Lavinia Gray’s Last Night And The Night Before at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience, Richard 111 for The Public Theater at the Delacorte and The Harder They Come at The Public Theater.

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