I'm dialect coach Joel Goldes and I can coach any dialect of spoken English.  In addition to all of the most-requested dialects (I'm expert with British, American, Irish, French, German, New York, Southern and countless other accents) I specialize in the less well-known; I have recently taught Uzbek, Mozambique and Azeri accents.

I coach the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical, Come From Away, running not only on Broadway in New York City but also across North America. It's also running in London's West End and in Australia. Come From Away features 12 actors playing 84 characters in at least 13 different accents.

I created an accent of the future for the sci-fi feature After Earth, starring Will and Jaden Smith.

Kevin Costner won the 2012 Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Mini-series after I prepped him in a West Virginia accent for Hatfields & McCoys.

In addition to coaching many commercials, I coached the American-born Orbit Gum Girl in an English accent for three years of national campaigns for Wrigley/BBDO.

Dialect coaching has taken me to New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Moab, Humboldt, Albuquerque, Dallas, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, Costa Rica, Beijing, London and Dublin, among other locations.

I've coached actors like Viola Davis, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Will Smith, Shia Labeouf, Anil Kapoor, Jessica Chastain, Nicolas Cage, Julia Ormond, Dennis Farina, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard, Jada Pinkett Smith, Robin Williams, Alexander Skarsgaard, Eric Lange, Jim Jefferies, Rhys Darby, Nnamdi Asomugha, Armie Hammer, Nate Parker, Kristofer Hivju, Jackie Earle Haley, Coleman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Aja Naomi King, Roger Guenveur Smith, Sacha Dhawan, Chris Geere, Jamie Dornan, Jason Segel, Sophie Okonedo, Jim Broadbent, Kevin Costner, Christopher Lambert, Roger Daltrey, Samantha Morton, Ken Jeong, Mike Myers, Jennifer Garner, Jason Isaacs, Wilmer Valderrama, Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, Emily Bergl, Simon Baker, Ryan Phillippe and thousands of others.

I've coached on The First Lady, Jingle Jangle, The Shrink Next Door, The Birth of a Nation, Escape at Dannemora, Honey Boy, The Tax Collector, Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Freed, Crown Heights, The Runner, The Crazy Ones, True Blood, The End of the Tour, Fury, Boardwalk Empire, The Night Shift, Mayans MC, Snowfall, S.W.A.T., 24:Legacy, Second Chance, Brothers in Atlanta, The Originals, Gotham, Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, Nymphomaniac, Lucky Stiff, Hatfields & McCoys, 24, No Ordinary Family, CSI, 90210, Heroes, CSI:NY, Memphis Beat, Outsourced, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, Shark, The Wronged Man, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Company Men, Che, Kitt Kittredge, The Cat in the Hat, Art School Confidential, Sleeper Cell, Without a Trace, Lackawanna Blues, War of the Worlds, An American Crime, Jolene, Expired, Expired, Final Draft, Trinity, Land of the Dead, Five Fingers, Open Window, Bobby, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, One Night With the King, Undiscovered, Solstice, D.O.A., Dora the Explorer, Black. White., Syriana, Lost, Stick It!, War Stories and many others..

Theaters I've coached for include Junkyard Dogs/Alchemy (Come From Away on Broadway, Toronto, North American Tour, Dublin, London's West End, and Australia), Center Theatre Group (Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theater), Disney Theatrical (Mary Poppins National Tour at The Ahmanson), Pasadena Playhouse, Furious Theatre, NPR/LA Theaterworks, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Rubicon, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Globe Theaters, South Coast Repertory, Evidence Room, The Colony and Taper, Too.

I've been retained by corporations like the California Independent Systems Operator, Ernst & Young, Anthem/Blue Cross, Farmers Insurance, Jafra International, TAXI, Reuters International Television, California Lutheran University and the Los Angeles Japanese Consulate, among others.

I trained as an actor, and always loved doing accents. Part of my graduate training at the University of California at Irvine was three years of daily voice and speech classes. It was at UCI that I learned dialects systematically, and I began to teach undergraduate classes there while earning my Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA).

Everywhere I worked as an actor (first at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, and later in New York City) I would also either dialect coach plays or work with actors privately teaching them dialects. As my career moved from acting to directing in New York, I continued to coach dialects, with this part of my career eventually taking over. My work as an actor and a director 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 that accent within your character's given circumstances. I'm conversant in the language of acting and I enjoy working with actors, so you'll have my empathetic ear.

Please note: Unfortunately, I'm unable to respond to specific inquiries about how to become a dialect coach. I can only speak to my own experience, and have outlined my career path above.