Paige Walker. Your American Voice, The Biz Of Showbiz

As one of Australia's hardest working American Dialect coaches, US native Paige Walker, helps each actor find their American Voice.

Paige Walker has been in the arts industry for over 27 years, beginning her journey at one of the United States most prestigious performing arts schools, Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts. Going on to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre she then took the trip to New York where she tread the boards for 8 years. Upon making the move to Sydney in 2000, Paige began teaching American Dialect full time, privately and on set. Paige has worked on feature films, with Belvoir Street Theatre and alongside some of Australia's finest talents.

Her approach to her work is to take the fine detail into concepts that are approachable and comprehensive. . allowing each actor to find their American voice and then apply that voice to their work.

"I started with Paige in 2008 and although I had just graduated from the prestigious Bachelor of Acting at NIDA, I still felt I'd had very little time with a real expert on the US dialect. In retrospect I dont think I have ever come across any teacher that can so easily identify and correct the sounds of an Australian to any US regional speech. I still see Paige for every project on skype and I encourage you and anyone, with any accent or ethnicity to start work with Paige Walker immediately to obtain a clean authentic North American accent. . . and I always look forward to our time together too. "
Hugh Sheridan "Never Tear Us Apart", "Packed to the Rafters"


"I have worked closely with Paige since 2010. I came to her with an exotic mish-mash for an accent, an Israeli who has lived in Australia for 14 years.
In those years of working with her I had many frustrating moments, fear of failure and I reached many (what I thought ) dead ends.
Paige was always nurturing and very patient. Above all, she kept believing in me even when I didn't. Together we managed to break those barriers and push through to the next level.
Today I feel very strong about auditions or any job that comes my way that requires a US accent. My feature Arrowhead will be released late 2014 and it's all done in an American accent. I wouldn't have done it without Paige in my corner. "
Dan Mor, "Arrowhead", "Underbelly"