Daryll Heysham is a Manhattan-based coach with over 25 years of experience in teaching voice, speech, and accents/dialects. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and received his MFA in Theatre Arts from Pittsburgh’s Point Park University. He has taught voice and speech and accents/dialects at Point Park as well as Cornell University, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Daryll has also taught beginning and advanced acting at the above-mentioned institutions and at regional theatres, drama camps, and as a private coach.

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A professional actor for over 35 years, Daryll is a long-standing member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA. He has worked on stage, film, TV, and radio, performing in industrial/commercial voice-overs, episodic television, and Off-Broadway. He has worked with such renowned artists as Cicely Berry, John Barton, and Gregory Doran (all from the Royal Shakespeare Company), as well as Irene Worth, George Peppard, Susan Clark, Harold Gould, and Roscoe Lee Browne. His expertise with accents and dialects has landed him such varied roles as an Oxford professor, a Chicago loan shark, an Alabama sheriff, a Scottish coal miner, an Italian patriarch, an Irish criminal, and a Russian-Jewish immigrant.

Daryll can help add accent/dialect skills to your toolbox for when they’re needed. He can show you how to approach the sides/copy and break down the text into easily learned sounds and speech patterns. He can help you nail that audition, get a call-back, and land the job. Most recently, Daryll taught a Nigerian accent to a client who booked the role at the prestigious Playwrights Horizons in NYC, and a British RP accent to a client who won a lead role in the new musical version of “Pride and Prejudice.” He has coached actors on perfecting their accents once they have already landed the role and are in rehearsals. His clients run the gamut from beginning students to Broadway professionals to Hollywood actors such as Julie Garfield (“Goodfellas,”) and Sean Young (“Blade Runner”).