"AUTHENTICITY IN THE MULTIPLE LANGUAGES IN THE TEXT IS MATCHED BY THE HEROIC DIALECT COACHING (IN ELEVEN TWISTING TONGUES) OF JOEL GOLDES."                                                                                           -- PLAYS INTERNATIONAL, 'PENTECOST'

I spent a couple of days on the set of CBS' Numb3rs, coaching an actor in an exotic dialect which I won't reveal here, so I don't spoil the surprise.

I spent the wee hours of the weekend on the phone to London, patched in to GoldCrest Post, coaching my client Julia Ormond in her modified Mid-Atlantic accent for her role as reporter Lisa Howard in Steven Soderbergh's film, Guerilla. The film is being prepped for its world premiere shortly at the Cannes Film Festival, and I got to be a fly on the wall (fly in the ear?) as the actors re-recorded dialogue for scenes in the ADR (Automated Digital Recording) studio. In the scenes we worked on, Ms. Ormond's character is interviewing Che Guevara (played by Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro) about his role in the Cuban Revolution.

I've just begun rehearsals for a musical adaptation of Willa Cather's My Antonia at the Rubicon Theatre, adapted and directed by Scott Schwartz (Golda's Balcony) with original music by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell). The dialects include Czech, Norwegian, German and Italian.

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