Dayle Towarnicky (she/her) is an Assistant Professor with the FSU School of Theatre in Tallahassee, Florida, where she teaches and coaches voice, somatics, speech, and accent. Dayle researches intersections between voice and speech practice and linguistics. Her article “Reexamining Glottalization..” won the 2024 Rocco Dal Vera Graduate Research Award by VASTA and is published in Volume 18 of the Voice and Speech Review. Particular linguistic interests include linguistic ideologies, metadiscourse, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, phonetics, and phonology.
She is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork ® and a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method ® of somatic education. Previous teaching with The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, and the University of Central Florida School of Performing Arts. In 2026, Dayle was a member of the leadership team for VASTA’s HealthCore interest group, as well as a Co-Curator for the Knight-Thompson Speechwork Webinar series. Masters degrees awarded by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the CUNY Graduate Center. BFA awarded by NYU Tisch / Stella Adler.
Upcoming Short Courses
Tuesday 8th December 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Authenticating Accents: The Process behind Authenticity!
Dayle Towarnicky
Authenticity is a present-day buzzword around performance, including performance in a target accent! But what makes accentwork ‘authentic’ or ‘inauthentic’ aside from hitting target sounds? Join Dayle Towarnicky to learn, explore, and apply theory about the process of authentication to your accentwork practice! Defining authentication compared to authenticity and other terms, explore authentication as a ‘tactic’ language-users deploy, and apply authentication to accents and the accentwork process itself.
Past Short Courses
Thursday 6th November 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
"Throaty Sounds": Cross-linguistics, Health, & Pedagogy!
Dayle Towarnicky
Glottal stops, vocal fry, creaky voice, and more! There are many types of “throaty sounds” that we make in spoken languages and simply in vocal expression. Many practitioners have historically expressed strong views about the health or use of throaty sounds: considering them risky or unhealthy, as well as displeasing. Join Dayle Towarnicky as she reconsiders the narrative around glottals and vocal fry to support our students' use of speech!