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Keri Safran

Performer & Accent Coach

Keri Safran is a bi-coastal Actress and Accent, Dialect, and Acting Coach based in the US. She is an Alum of the Groundlings Sunday Company and a certified Knight-Thompson Speechwork teacher. As a coach, Keri offers private dialect coaching and accent reduction assistance, acting and audition coaching, and regularly teaches Accent Webinars and Intensives. She also offers tons of free accent tips on her Instagram, @kerisafran, and created a free accent guide called 8 Steps to Learning an Accent Fast! She has coached characters on a variety of TV shows and films, including Star Trek, Fargo, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Night Agent. Her most recent performances include a guest star role on Law & Order: SVU and in the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival’s Lake George. She last appeared on the NY stage in the revival of Morning’s at Seven.

Professional Achievements

  • Served as the Dialect Coach for productions across the country, from Off-Broadway to MA to Los Angeles
  • Joined the faculty of UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television in 2025
  • Skilled impressionist, specializing in coaching actors to recreate the voices of actual historical figures
  • First professional actress job was as a Texas bartender in Richard Linklater's unseen HBO pilot, "$5.15/hr."

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