Joel Goldes

ASSOCIATE EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Private-Practice Dialect Coach

Contributions to IDEA:
California 4 | England 58 | GeorgiaEU 1 | Germany 7 | Hidalgo 1 | Israel 3 | New York 12 | Pennsylvania 6

Bio: Joel Goldes is a dialect coach whose stage credits include the Broadway production of Come from Away (also Canadian company, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Ford’s Theatre DC, Gander, Toronto), which was praised by Entertainment Weekly: “It feels right to give a rare shout-out to a dialect coach: Joel Goldes.”

His film and television credits include The Perfect Couple and No Good Deed on Netflix; Washington Black on Hulu; Presumed Innocent; The Woman King; The Handmaid’s Tale; The First Lady; Here’s Yianni!; Honey Boy; The Shrink Next Door; 24; Escape at Dannemora; Jingle Jangle; Crown Heights; Son of the South; The Company Men; The Birth of a Nation: The Runner; Devs; Fifty Shades of Gray and Fifty Shades Freed (ADR); Lethal Weapon; Snowfall; True Blood; Memphis Beat; Gotham; Boardwalk Empire; The End of the Tour; Fury; The Night Shift; After Earth; NCIS: Los Angeles; Awake; Outsourced; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; 24: Legacy; Outsourced; 90210; The Crazy Ones (coaching Robin Williams); The Hangover; Art School Confidential; Nine Lives; The War of the Worlds; CSI: New York; Dora the Explorer; Heroes; Black. White; Lackawanna Blues; Alias; The Joe Schmo Show; War Stories; Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights; The Company Men; and Hatfields & McCoys (for which his client, Kevin Costner, won an Emmy for best actor).

Theatre includes Come From Away (Broadway, First North American Tour, West End, Australia, Toronto, Ottowa, Gander, and Apple TV+); The Secret Garden, 2:22: A Ghost Story, Soft Power, Sweat, Immediate Family, and Tribes (Center Theater Group, Los Angeles); Memphis, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message… and Going to St. Ives (La Jolla Playhouse); and Orson’s Shadow and Mask (Pasadena Playhouse).

In his free time, Joel enjoys springboard diving and ridding his local creek of invasive swamp crawdads.

Contact: jgoldes@thedialectcoach.com; thedialectcoach.com