Edith Skinner (née Warman; 22 September 1902 – 25 July 1981) was a Canadian-born vocal coach and a consultant to actors.
Her book, Speak With Distinction, has been reprinted several times,[1] promoting actors' use of what she called "Good American Speech".
Skinner was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, in eastern Canada, on 22 September 1902, to Herbert Havelock Warman and his wife Agnes Lynn, née Orr.
She attended the Leland Powers School for the Spoken Word in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, and graduated in 1923.
[3] From 1937 to 1974, Skinner was on the faculty of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh.