Paul Meier

Paul Meier is a dialect coach for film and theatre. He is best known as the author of "Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen" and for founding the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), the leading online archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents from around the world. Meier is also a voice-over artist with many commercials and audio books to his credit; a theatre professor specializing in voice, speech, accents/dialects and heightened text; and a Shakespeare scholar specializing in Original Pronunciation (OP). He also works with clients on accent reduction. This has been his calling for more than 40 years, in his native London, in the United States where he is now based, and all over the world. Paul Meier Dialect Services has been a leading Internet presence since 1998, attracting thousands of clients with its dialect books and CDs, and show-specific dialect designs. He has coached many feature films, including Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's "Ride With the Devil," starring Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich and Jewel, and close to 200 plays and musicals for the theatre in more than a dozen countries.