AMY STOLLER is resident dialect designer and frequent production dramaturge at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theater Company, where she has been helping casts suit words to actions since 1996. Other dramaturgy includes four works with La Femme Theatre Productions, Karen Eterovich’s touring solo show Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical, and key linguistic research for a plot point in episode “911” of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Professional associations include Voice and Speech Trainers Association (Officer), International Dialects of English Archive, The Shaw Project (Board of Advisors), League of Professional Theatre Women, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition, Theater Resources Unlimited, others. Amy's writings appear in Voice and Speech Review, Mint Theater Co. programs, The New York Public Library Literature Companion, and Multimedia Hitchcock (part of MoMA’s Hitchcock centenary celebration). She is the recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women’s 2023 Ruth Morley Design Award, presented to her by Anna Deavere Smith. www.stollersystem.com/dramaturgy/

Linguistic, idiomatic, historical, cultural, religious, political, social … If you need it to help understand what your characters are talking about, I’m on it.

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