Detail View: Graduate Thesis Collection: Shalom, Y’all! An Actor’s Journey to a New Dialect

Title: 
Shalom, Y’all! An Actor’s Journey to a New Dialect
Creator: 
Murphy, William Cody
Subject: 
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Performing Arts
Subject: 
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Performing Arts
Rights: 
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract: 
Born in rural Southeast TN, I have been aware of my heavy southern accent while studying to be an actor. Overcoming my accent has been a challenge throughout my acting career. For my thesis, I will perform a role that requires me to lose my accent and replace it with that of a Jewish man born in New York City in his late fifties. Implementing my actor training, I will use the techniques I have learned in graduate school to fully realize and execute a believable performance in Charles Busch’s play Die Mommie Die.
Publisher: 
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date: 
2014-05
Format: 
PDF : 69 p. : ill