Teacher
Ivan Borodin
Ivan Borodin has taught accent reduction and dialects at Los Angeles City College since 1996 and at the Beverly Hills Adult School since 1997, where he also teaching acting. He has worked with hundreds of actors on a wide range of projects, from Melrose Place to The Shield. He holds a BFA in Fine Arts from New York University. While the main focus of his work as a teacher has been accent reduction, he also specializes in the following dialects: British, New York, Southern, French, German, Russian, Cockney, Irish, Scottish, Arabic, Japanese and Australian. Recently, he served as the dialect coach on the upcoming feature, The Truth About Angels.
To receive information on group classes, please contact the following schools and request a catalog be sent to you:
Beverly Hills Adult School (310) 551-5150
Los Angeles City College (323) 669-1031
Testimonials
"I have worked with Ivan for the past 9 months here in LA. Thanks to Ivan I can now convince most Americans that I am American and not Australian. Ivan not only reduces your accent but identifies the rhythm of American speech; which I have not heard other teachers do. This came in especially handy recently when I had to learn a large piece of copy for a TV commercial, which Ivan helped break down and showed me the rhythm, which I am sure helped with getting the callback." - Anthony Wemyss, June 2008
"I fully enjoyed and loved every day working with you. Thanks!! You are a wonderful teacher and you have a very unique way to teach- and that was so much fun and helpful, learning to lose the accent." - Ulrike Mahr, July 2008
"Your Accent Reduction method is truly the best and I have achieved total success through your course." - John Suppiah, August 2008
Many of the photos on this website were shot by Mukuch Khdrlaryan - check out his myspace page @ http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=122418324.
