Joseph Papke - Dialect Coach

“As an actor and a director, he's the first
person I call.” ––Zach Curtis
Artistic Director, Paul Bunyan Playhouse

"An actor himself, Joe understands that each   performer has his or her own particular process in creating a character. In my experience, Joe has listened to the actor's concerns about who their character is, how the actor wishes to approach the character's accent or dialect, and he is open to the particular learning style the actor has. I feel that Joe helps you create an individual character, while still helping the show as a whole feel anchored by the particular accent(s) of the setting. In short, he is an actor's coach, and I have been very happy with my results working with him."
                               ––Carolyn Pool
                   Actor, coached at Park Square Theatre
                         and Penumbra Theatre

Productions I've coached, include:
“As an actor and a director, he's the first person I call.” ––Zach Curtis Artistic Director, Paul Bunyan Playhouse "An actor himself, Joe understands that each performer has his or her own particular process in creating a character. In my experience, Joe has listened to the actor's concerns about who their character is, how the actor wishes to approach the character's accent or dialect, and he is open to the particular learning style the actor has. I feel that Joe helps you create an individual character, while still helping the show as a whole feel anchored by the particular accent(s) of the setting. In short, he is an actor's coach, and I have been very happy with my results working with him." ––Carolyn Pool Actor, coached at Park Square Theatre and Penumbra Theatre	Theater Guthrie Theater Flying Foot Forum Mixed Blood Theatre Penumbra Theatre Equity Showcase Park Square Theatre Pillsbury House Theatre Theatre Pro Rata Theatre in the Round Emigrant Theatre Theatre Unbound Walking Shadow Company Macalester College Do Tank Productions	Show A Midsummer Night's Dream A Christmas Carol ^* The Scottsboro Boys Heaven The Poetry of Pizza Take Me Out Sex Diary of an Infidel A Streetcar Named Desire Rock n Roll The Sisters Rosensweig Frozen The Chosen Steel Magnolias A Tale of Two Cities Enchanted April The Pride Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi Slag Heap Emma Trainspotting See How They Run The Rivals As Bees in Honey Drown Jesus Hates Me Bits and Pieces Shakespeare's Land of the Dead The American Pilot The Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Two Hands on the Plow	Accents/Dialects Minnesotan (Mechanicals) RP, Cockney southern U.S. (characters of Haywood and Eugene) Serbo-Croatian Iraqi Kurdish, Danish Arkansas (character of Shane) Australian New Orleans Yat, Mississippi Delta Czech, RP RP, Estuary, Liverpool, NYC West Midlands, UK Yiddish (consultant) Northern Louisiana RP, Cockney RP, Italian RP, Estuary RP, Estuary Estuary, Birmingham Manchester, Manchester Pakistani Yiddish, Russian, German, Italian Urban Edinburgh, RP RP, Cockney RP, Scottish, Yorkshire Russian, Cockney Texas Italian, Indian RP, Estuary Georgia (U.S. State), Central Asian RP, Cockney Mississippi Delta General Southern Irish, Galway, Belfast
	* As assistant to Gillian Lane-Plescia I have privately coached actors for roles and auditions and I have done self-study/coaching for my own roles in The Retreat From Moscow (Estuary), The Twilight of the Golds (Long Island), Flanagan’s Wake (Southern Irish), A Christmas Carol (RP), and others. I have interned at The Guthrie Theater with voice/speech coach, Elisa Carlson on The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde (RP), and A Streetcar Named Desire (New Orleans Yat, Mississippi Delta). Shakespearean text I have coached:
	Theater Park Square Theatre Theatre Pro Rata Theater in the Round Starting Gate Productions Theatre Unbound Swearing Jack Productions	Show Othello Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing Measure For Measure Richard III The Tempest Titus Andronicus
		I am an associate editor for the International Dialects of English Archive, a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and a Associate Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. .