Lynn Bains

  • Biography

    Born in New York, Lynn has lived and worked in Scotland for over 40 years.

    She has been accent coach for nearly every American play at Pitlochry Festival Theatre since 1989. Singing in the Rain, High Society and Chicago were her most recent shows. She has also worked regularly at The Royal Lyceum, Dundee Rep, and Perth Theatre. She is a founder of Stellar Quines, one of Scotland's most prestigious touring companies.

    Lynn was Head of Acting at Queen Margaret University for fifteen years and retired from full time teaching in 2005 to pursue her busy freelance career. She continues to teach Acting and Accents at MGA Musical Theatre Academy in Edinburgh. Hard to believe, but she still loves teaching!

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Lynn Bains

Accent Coach

TokillamockingbirdThe foremost American accent/dialect coach in Scotland, Lynn is one of those rare people who can actually practice what she teaches.  She can not only work effectively with actors to reach their full potential in the American accent required, but is equally at home behind a mic doing a range of American accents:  as a voice over, for arts programmes, for books, or for radio dramas.

“It isn’t about pronunciation or even ‘accuracy.’ It’s about savouring each word, finding and working the muscles that make the word authentic, sinking into the language, the place, the time and the character with joy.”

“Accent is not a glitzy costume, it’s a well worn old shirt.”

THE LITTLE FOXES, Pitlochry Festival Theatre

“One of the most gratifying aspects of this production is the effort that has gone into making the intonations and accents of the American deep south, Certainly credit is due to Lynn Bains for expert coaching.”

TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
FLORA, THE RED MENACE, Dundee Rep

“Significantly, the accent coaching, (by the redoubtable Lynn Bains) has been excellent and there are precious few slips from the cast.”

The Royal Lyceum Theatre

  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
  • The Crucible
  • The Price
  • Death of a Salesman
  • The Odd Couple
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • On Golden Pond
  • Oleanna
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Crimes of the Heart
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Glengary Glen Ross
  • All My Sons
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • The Man Who Had All the Luck
  • The Curse of the Starving Class
  • A View from the Bridge

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

  • Chicago
  • Singin in the Rain
  • High Society
  • Carousel
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • White Christmas (1 and 2)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Kiss Me Kate
  • Bus Stop
  • The Sly Fox
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • The Little Foxes
  • Death of a Salesman
  • All My Sons
  • Hunting Stuart
  • On Golden Pond
  • The Sunshine Boys
  • Long Day’s Journey into Night
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Summer is Come
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • The Matchmaker
  • Double Indemnity
  • Lend Me a Tenor
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Taking Sides

Perth Repertory Theatre

  • Moonlight and Magnolias
  • Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
  • The Odd Couple (Female Version)
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Steel Magnolias
  • Judy
  • Shadowlands
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • A View from the Bridge
  • The Nerd
  • Broadway Bound
  • Three Tall Women
  • Oklahoma!
  • Annie
  • Carousel
  • Three Steps to Heaven

The Byre Theatre

  • 84 Charing Cross Road
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • On Golden Pond
  • Masterclass
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • The Ride Down Mount Morgan

Dundee Repertory Theatre

  • Steel Magnolias
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • All My Sons
  • Flora, The Red Menace
  • A Lie of the Mind
  • Gypsy
  • Balgay Hill

The Brunton Theatre

  • 84 Charing Cross Road
  • Of Mice and Men

7:84 (Scotland)

  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Angels in America

Diva Theatre Company

  • Brilliant Traces

Also American accent sessions and workshops for companies and actors, numerous engagements as an actor for BBC Radio, Audio Description for ‘The Wedding Planner,’ ‘House of Mirth,’ and ‘Godsend’ for IADA, Ltd.

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