DIALECT COACH, ACCENTS, 
VOICE WORK       
Associate Professor of Voice & Speech
UIC School of Theatre & Music
Bio
Rep: Diane Kamp, Amy Landon Big Timber Management  

CURRENT & UPCOMING
Dungeons & Dragons (Michelle Rodriguez)                
The Brutalist (cast)
Untitled Wes Anderson Project (Jason Schwartzman)
Chicago Fire (s. 1-10) 
61st Street (s. 1) 
Gaia

FILM (select)
Army of the Dead (Ana de la Reguera, Ella Purnell & others), Widows (D. Kaluuya, E. Debicki, M. Rodriguez & others), Burnt Orange Heresy (Elizabeth Debicki), Queen & Slim (Daniel Kaluuya), Dreamland (Margot Robbie), American Honey (Sasha Lane), The Divergent Series, Black Hat (Chris Hemsworth), The Immigrant (Marion Cotillard), Public Enemies (Marion Cotillard), The Lucky Ones (Rachel McAdams), Lay the Favorite (Vince Vaughn), Toys in the Attic (Joan Cusack), The Colony (Nora Arnezeder)

TELEVISION
Fargo, Season 4 (Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw & others)          FX
Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas (Ana de la Reguera)                     NETFLIX
Chicago Med (seasons 3 & 4)                                                       NBC
Queen of the South  (Alfonso Herrera)                                          USA
The Exorcist  (Alfonso Herrera)                                                     FOX
Betrayal (Hannah Ware)                                                                CBS
Zoo (Nora Arnezeder)                                                                    CBS
Miscellaneous pilots

THEATRE
Between Riverside and Crazy (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Fundamentals (Steppenwolf Theatre), B'way: US.. tours of Hamilton, Billy Elliot: The Musical, and Dirty Dancing, U.S. Premiere of Elmina’s Kitchen (Congo Square Theatre), and numerous other Chicago productions including A Streetcar Named Desire, Pitmen Painters, A Christmas Carol, As You Like It, A Winter's Tale, Angels in America 

Tanera is a Senior Editor for the The International Dialects of English Archive online, and is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. 

Acting credits include numerous commercials and voiceovers, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Hamlet, Cyrano, Two Gentlemen of Verona), the Festival de la Rue in Switzerland, and Chicago’s Court, Redmoon, and Organic Touchstone theaters.



BA, Oberlin College; 
MFA, The Theatre School at Depaul
Certified Instructor, Fitzmaurice Voicework®

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