ABOUT
BACKGROUND
Benjamin is a native of the U.K with twenty years of teaching/coaching experience gained with nationalities from all over the world. Benjamin lives between Rome and London and speaks Italian fluently. He is accomplished at one-to-one coaching as well as running workshops and teaching small groups and university lectures.
Benjamin trained in Drama, Theatre and Voice Studies and has devised/produced theatre productions in Japan, Poland and Italy. Since 2014, he has specialized in training and supporting actors in coaching the voice, including work on text, dialogue as well as accents. He helps actors prepare for auditions, create showreels as well as assist in preparation for a role with dialogue and accents.
Benjamin has worked in the Film and T.V sector as a dialect/dialogue/voice coach on various acclaimed international productions with a number of internationally renowned actors. Benjamin specialises in working with non-native English speakers, (L2) actors, from all over the world. He has a good linguistic awareness with scripts and dialogue and has also translated scripts and treatments from Italian into English. He enjoys writing and performs poetry and songs. Benjamin holds an M.A. in Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
He has also devised several tailor-made courses in Educational and Corporate sectors including government ministries and multinational companies in retail, banking, advertising, tobacco, fashion and pharmaceutical industries. He has helped several clients prepare for meetings, speeches, presentations.
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POETRY AND SONG
The Yuri Gagarin Contraband - The Songs of Cosmos
"The Yuri Gagarin Contraband truly is a fascinating and unique little project. It's the brainchild of Ben Shilling, who effectively puts himself in the mind of the first man to go into space and shares with us his hopes, dreams, nightmares and fears (of which there are many) via an audio-visual medium. Thought-provoking, arty, wonderfully odd and curiously cool, the YGC are wittily and boldly original." PAUL MILLS (2010)
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