# Event Details - **Event Name**: Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Nov, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Thu, 05 Nov, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: A talkback, signing and live podcast recording.About this EventThe Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications,  Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 – North America and the Caribbean About the bookSpanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 – North America and the Caribbean is an interactive roadmap to the accents and dialects of the Spanish-speaking world that uses trauma-informed approaches to navigate the reclamation of the Latino/a/e/x home sounds.Historically, performing Spanish-speaking characters has been done through oversimplification and has left actors with minimal resources for navigating the authentic portrayal of the Latine community on stage and on screen. Characters of the Spanish speaking diaspora are often reduced to overly simplistic caricatures of sensuality and aggressive temperaments, while Latine actors are asked to erase their cultural identity in order to fit into these media-perpetuated stereotypes. This book seeks to undo this erasure by serving as a compendium for actors wishing to navigate the authentic portrayal of Hispanic characters in the performance of English and Spanish language texts. Conscientiously researched and linguistically detailed analyses of the Spanish-speaking regions of North America and the Caribbean provide a long-overdue challenge to outdated stereotypes and generalizations. Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors offers an accessible approach to diving into the cultural context, oral posture, pronunciation, and other key characteristics of these complex and layered accents and dialects.This book is written for actors, performers, directors, voice and speech educators, playwrights, and theatre students interested in an authentic representation of accents and dialects of the Spanish-speaking diaspora.About the AuthorsElisa Gonzales is a professional voice, text, and dialect coach, educator, actor, and playwright.  Her professional coaching credits include productions on Broadway, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, American Players Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, the Hangar Theatre Company, Santa Fe Playhouse, and many more. Elisa is a proud contributing author to the recently published Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance. Elisa is also a playwright. Her original play with music, Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido, was a 2022 Semi-Finalist for the O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference. Elisa is an Associate Professor of Voice and Acting at UMass Amherst, a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Elisa is a proud member of the Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association, and currently serves on the Board of Directors. For more information, visit www.elisagonzales.comJosh "J" Feliciano-Sanchez Moser is a professional voice/dialect coach, actor, and educator. Professional coaching credits include productions with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Profile Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, TheatreWorks Hartford, The Billie Holiday Theatre, Brown University/Trinity Repertory, Savannah Stage Company, and CNN's Margins of Error with Harry Enten. Josh is an Assistant Professor in Kean University's Department of Theatre and previously served as Interim Head of Voice and Speech for the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA program, with additional teaching experience at Yale, HB Studios, La Mama/Trinity, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. Josh co-authored the article "Strategies for Guiding Actors' Accent and Linguistic Needs in the Twenty-First Century" for the Voice and Speech Review. They are a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Josh is a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association, the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, and the Voice and Speech Trainers' Association. For more information, visit www.JoshFSMoser.comAdi Cabral is an Associate Professor of Voice and Movement and the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno. They work professionally as a dialect coach, intimacy director, and audiobook narrator with  professional credits including over 50 audiobooks; theatrical productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Houston Stages, Santa Fe Playhouse, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New Repertory Theatre, Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company, Stage Q, The New Hazlett Theater, The Hangar Theatre Company, Central Square Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Darlinghurst Theatre in Australia; and dialect coaching for the screen with NBC, Prime, and Fox. Cabral is the coauthor of Here’s How to Teach Voice and Communication Skills to Transgender Women, author of Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality, a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight-Thompson Speechwork, member and President of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. For more information, please visit www.adicabral.com. About the eventThis Eventbrite ticket is your reservation for the event.Please note that the purchase of Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 – North America and the Caribbean ($51.99) or a $15.00 ticket is required for entrance. Upon arrival, our team will direct you to the register to obtain your copy and complete your admission.The store will begin welcoming guests at 7:15 pm.Should you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at rsvp@dramabookshop.com.In the event of the event being sold out. 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