The aim of the research was to establish phonetic statuses of amateur actors in order to gain insight into the states of speech performance of individuals who are amateur actors. The purpose of the research was to prove that amateur actors need voice and speech training that acting students receive in the academy if they want to act professionally. In the research part of the paper, the speech performance of amateur actors (N = 26), participants of acting workshops in the "Točka na i" art organization, was perceptually analyzed in the categories of voice, pronunciation, lexical accent system, expressiveness and fluency. In addition, the fundamental frequency was acoustically measured during phonation of the vowel /a/ and reading of non-fricative texts. Research has shown that amateur actors need training in vocal hygiene and protection and need to work on good pronunciation, which is important when speaking on stage. Arts organizations should offer this type of training to their participants, and performers should be phoneticians who are experts in voice and speech. The second part of the paper presented a phonetic workshop for amateur actors.