"Each actor has a few key roles and they flip from being passengers and Gander citizens, back and forth, but you’re never confused because they really become these characters, flip, flip, flip, in one second, by using accents (kudos to Dialect Coach Joel Goldes), mannerisms, and the relationships they have.  --Front Row Reviewers Utah

Entertainment Weekly lauded my work on the new Broadway musical, Come From Away: "...It feels right to give a rare shout-out to a dialect coach: Joel Goldes had performers skillfully switching in and out of Newfie speech, which sounds a bit like an Irish brogue by way of Fargo,)" as well as, "a Brit and a Texan...; and one cynical New Yorker who finds the hospitality to be suspect. There are Spanish-speakers and French-speakers and two Swahili-speakers terrified by the sight of volunteers in Salvation Army uniforms."

I coached another professional athlete in the ways of speaking clearly without stressing the unimportant stuff.

After coaching the hit musical Come From Away at La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory, Ford's Theatre in DC and Toronto, I'll join the company in New York City for the Broadway debut in March.

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My past acting and directing experience uniquely qualifies me as a dialect coach: not only can I guide you in the subtleties of a new accent, I can also help you explore sound possibilities within the character's given circumstances.

I look forward to working with you.

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