The Voice Studio
With nearly two decades of voice, speech and dialect coaching experience at The Juilliard School, California Institute of the Arts and in the film industry, Denise Woods founded The Denise Woods Studios; a state of the art voice, speech, dialect and accent reduction studio located in the heart of West Hollywood. The Denise Woods Studio offers clients conservatory style training in a one on one intimate studio setting, the comfort of a corporate boardroom or in a larger corporate seminar environment. This fast paced voice, speech and self presentation technique is designed to teach clients (of any age) the verbal and body language skills needed to compete in academic, business and/or social settings. Through a myriad of creative exercises, clients learn to express ideas, thoughts and feelings more eloquently and effectively to an audience of two or two thousand. This proven technique increases breath capacity, enriches vocal quality, strengthens articulation and produces clear, well organized thoughts while communicating. The objective is to address the vocal and speech needs of a vastly broad community without compromising the vocal integrity of the client. Actors, athletes, broadcast journalists, politicians, inner-city high school students and anyone who has the desire to improve their communication skills will benefit from this critically acclaimed method. Featured in The New Yorker Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun, Woods has assembled a team of speech clinicians trained in her successful method of voice and speech coaching with the specific goal of enabling clients to “Speak It Clearly”!
About Denise Woods
Denise Woods, a faculty member at the Juilliard School for nearly a decade, currently teaches voice and speech at California Institute of the Arts. Ms. Woods has worked as a vocal coach with NBC Nightly News, CNBC, Bloomberg News, Today Show, CNN, Inside Edition, KTLA News, KNBC Today in LA and the TV Guide Channel. Some of her clients include Soledad O’Brien, Chris Hansen, Maria Bartiromo, Norah O’Donnell, Kim Rouggie, Rachel Boesing and Zorrianna Kit. As a dialect coach for actors in the film industry, her work includes Academy-Award nominated actors Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai directed by Ed Zwick and Will Smith in Ali directed by Michael Mann. Other films include Shaft starring Jeffrey Wright, Only in America: the Don King Story starring Ving Rhames, Last Holiday starring Queen Latifah, How Stella Got Her Groove Back starring Taye Diggs and Once in the Life written, starring and directed by Laurence Fishburne. She is currently the dialect coach for Tony Sinclair, the Tanqueray Gin spokesperson. Denise Woods has had the honor of working with numerous actors in various venues, however, some of the most rewarding experiences have been those with Phylicia Rashad, Ellen Burstyn, Morris Chestnut, Gloria Reuben, Paul Rodriguez, Victoria Rowell, Eve, Ray Liotta, Porscia DeRossi, Rachel Weisz, Mekhi Phifer, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeanne Trupplehorn and Mike Myers. In addition to her work with some of theater and film’s most respected actors, Woods is using her expertise to help professional athletes improve their communication and media skills. She has worked with some of sports most popular athletes including players from the New York Knicks and the New York Giants as well as several retired athletes looking to further their careers in broadcasting and business. As a graduate of The Juilliard School, she became the first African-American female to join the Drama Division faculty in 1992. To date, Woods’ most rewarding achievement has been the creation of “Express Yourself,” a program she founded in 1996 teaching voice, speech and acting to teenagers from the Harlem community.
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Contact
8961 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 2F
Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: 310 550-6806
Email: dwoodsca@aol.com
- Coaching Packages Available
- Major Credit Cards Accepted
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"Denise is one of the best dialect coaches in the business. I couldn’t have completed the Ali project without her!"
Will Smith
Actor, Writer, Producer
Actor, Writer, Producer
"Denise understands the unique nature of our business. Her goal is to keep the inherent personality in each voice while losing the bad habits that drive viewers to distraction."
Soledad O’Brien
Anchor
American Morning, CNN News
Anchor
American Morning, CNN News
"Denise has a gift for capturing and coaching the minute differences and inflections of a dialect… And on top of all that, she is a hot broad!"
Paul Rodriguez
Actor, Producer, Director, Comedian
Actor, Producer, Director, Comedian
"Denise’s work on Once in the Life was amazing. She has an incredible ear for dialects."
Laurence Fishburne
Actor, Producer, Director
Actor, Producer, Director
Articles
• The New Yorker Magazine
(Available upon request.)