Samara Bay ’02

Samara Bay is a speech and dialect coach for actors in television and film, as well as a communication coach helping professionals across industries find their voice. She has prepped clients for UN speeches and tech pitches, taught through the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, and recently provided voice tips and how-to’s for an upcoming book aimed at women running for office. Recent dialect coaching projects include: Wonder Woman 1984 (Gal Gadot), American Crime Story: Versace (Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez), Avengers: Infinity War (Pom Klementieff), and Patty Jenkins’ upcoming TNT miniseries. She was featured in The New York Times magazine last year in a piece called “The Accent Whisperers of Hollywood” that focused on her work helping clients sound authentic in an accent other than their own while having fun doing it.