News In Motion the Podcast

The power of our voice is more than expressing ourselves; it is building community, taking a stand, and sitting at the table with confidence and boldness. Listen in as Samara Bay speech and dialect coach inspire us to find our voices and use them. Please visit www.SamaraBay.com and pre-order Permission to Speak by Samara Bay.

Samara Bay is a speech and dialect coach whose clients include top actors in Hollywood and leading professionals in politics, business, tech, and creative fields. She’s run workshops and masterclasses at organizations and universities around the U.S. and abroad, including her alma mater, Princeton. Her work on rethinking the sound of power has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, CBS Sunday morning, Slate, Create & Cultivate, and Jezebel, and her first book is slated for early 2023: Permission to Speak, published by Crown, a division of Penguin Random House.

As a dialect coach, she’s worked with Gal Gadot (Red Notice, Wonder Woman 1984), Rachel McAdams (Eurovision), Penelope Cruz and Edgar Ramirez (American Crime Story: Versace, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for both actors), and on projects for Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Apple, Sony, and Marvel. An article about her work called “The Accent Whisperers of Hollywood” appeared in The New York Times Magazine and she was recently featured on CBS Sunday morning and Tamron Hall on ABC.

She received media training from Media Matters as a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, improv training from the Upright Citizens’ Brigade, and speech training from world-renowned teachers based at Juilliard, The Royal Shakespeare Company, ACT, Brown, and Yale. She sits on the advisory board of Hollywood social action group Young Entertainment Activists as well as the world’s first community-led accent app, Spikizi. She received a BA in English from Princeton University and an MFA in acting from Brown University.

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