Tanera Marshall is a Voice and Accent specialist in theatre, TV, and film. Recent dialect work/films out soon: The Brutalist (Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones), Train Dreams (Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones), Oh.What.Fun (Felicity Jones). Past credits: Hunger Games, Asteroid City (Jason Schwartzman), and Widows (Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Daniel Kaluuya), Queen & Slim (Daniel Kaluuya), Public Enemies (Marion Cotillard), The Lucky Ones (Rachel McAdams), and the Divergent series. Television: “The Bear,” (3 seasons), “The Morning Show,” “Station Eleven,” “Fargo,” “Shining Girls,” “Chicago Fire” (12 seasons), and “Chicago Med” (4 seasons). Theatre credits: Broadway tours of Hamilton, Billy Elliot, and Dirty Dancing, and several productions at Steppenwolf, the Goodman Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, TimeLine, andCourt Theatre.
Tanera has collected and archived accents from the Caribbean, Alaska, and First Nations/Native American/Alaska Native tribes and communities at The International Dialects of English Archive https://www.dialectsarchive.com/ where she is a Senior Editor-at-Large. Her most recent contributions included recordings from Louisiana, Chicago, Arizona. She was a teaching artist in Chicago Public Schools for 10 years.
BA (Oberlin College), MFA (Depaul Theatre School), Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, VASTA Member, Senior Editor-at-Large (International Dialects of English Archive), and a UIC University Scholars Award recipient.