In The Press
"Special mention must go to dialect coach Joel Goldes, who kept everyone smooth and still understandable."
"We were presenting David Edgar's PENTECOST, a famously difficult play written in twelve wildly different languages and just as many accents. Joel took on the formidable task of coaching all the dialects. He is an extraordinarily patient and generous teacher and collaborator, deftly guiding each of the actors to find his or her own way into the character's voice. The results spoke for themselves. No one in the audience could distinguish the native speakers from their newly-learned American counterparts."
From The Guardian: (On the film Fargo) "The film-makers created an accent that is beyond anything you would actually hear in North Dakota," says Joel Goldes, currently helping Jennifer Garner sound southern for an upcoming role. "But everyone, including Americans, now assumes that is how people in that part of the world speak.