Dialogue & Dialect Coach · Voice Director
Coaching the read,
not just the words.
Castilian Spanish dialogue and dialect coaching and voice direction for film, television, video games and dubbing — for productions that want a performance a native speaker would believe.
A director is the bridge between the client and the audience.
I own a project's tone, intention and pace, and as the language and culture expert I steer the read when a delivery that lands in one language would misfire in another. With actors I build a relaxed, trusting room where the true emotion behind the text can surface, rather than imposing a result from outside. The technical groundwork — phonetics, emission, accent — exists to serve that honesty, never to replace it.
Directing talent is as much psychology as technique: attention to detail, an ear for each performer's strengths and limits, humour, and a room relaxed enough for honest work to happen. Often it also means coaching the client. A Japanese intonation that feels natural at home can read as cold or even aggressive to a Spanish audience, and part of my job is to see that mismatch coming and steer the read so the message lands exactly as it was intended.
Authenticity only appears once the actor has truly discovered the text.
From accent to intention.
- —Dialogue & dialect coachingFor screen, dubbing and games, in Castilian and peninsular Spanish.
- —Accent & intercultural deliveryNatural, idiomatic performance for non-native actors and bilingual casts.
- —Voice directionOn-set, remote and multilingual sessions, owning tone, pace and intention.
- —Language & culture consultingScript adaptation and on-set monitoring so the Spanish lands as it should.
- —Text, phonetics & emissionThe technical ground beneath an honest performance.
Coaching & direction credits.
Resident Evil 4 RemakeCapcom · 2023
Castilian Spanish language consultant and dialogue coach, working on the accent and delivery of the cast for the game's cinematics.
AppleLondon · 2015–2022
Vocal director and coach for Spanish-language voice talent across multiple projects.
Nadia FilmsLos Angeles · 2000–present
Castilian Spanish specialist and voice, advising on language and delivery for international productions.
Training the next generation of voices.
Universidad de AlicanteFaculty · MA in Applied Drama
Teaching voice and dialect on the Master's programme in Applied Drama, alongside directors including Mariano Barroso, Imanol Uribe and John Strasberg. Faculty profile →
Escuela de Doblaje de Alicante (EDA)Founder & director
Professional dubbing and character-creation training, with working dubbing actors and directors as faculty.
My teaching goes back more than two decades. As founder and director of EDA I have shaped its dubbing, locution and character-creation programmes, and I have also taught advertising and artistic locution and radio production at the Omni Artis academy in Madrid, voice and dramatised reading on University of Alicante summer courses, and locution workshops for cultural associations across the province. In 2014 I gave a conference on the state of dubbing in Spain at the Alicante Film Festival's "Música para la Imagen" programme.
In the room or down the line.
- —FormatsIn person in Alicante or on set, and remotely via Source-Connect, Zoom or your platform of choice.
- —ForNon-native actors, dubbing casts, voice-over talent and productions needing language and culture guidance.
- —LanguagesCastilian and peninsular Spanish (native), English and German.
- —ProjectsFilm, television, video games, dubbing and commercials.
Featured in the Spanish press.
"Las voces de Lucentum Studios"
Featured as founder and director of Lucentum Studios on exporting Spanish-language educational audio across Europe."El doblaje empieza a ver la luz"
Featured as voice coach and director of the Escuela de Doblaje de Alicante, on dubbing through the pandemic and international work."El actor de doblaje está de moda"
Interviewed as a dubbing expert and director of EDA on the rising demand for Spanish voice professionals.Memberships
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