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, Park Square Theatre, Penumbra Theatre

Productions I've coached:
“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, Park Square Theatre, Penumbra Theatre	Theater Mixed Blood Theatre Penumbra Theatre Equity Showcase Park Square Theatre Theatre Pro Rata Theatre in the Round Emigrant Theatre Theatre Unbound Walking Shadow Company Macalester College Do Tank Productions Edina High School Cromulent Shakespeare Co.	Show 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 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 Moon Over Buffalo Curtains Noises Off Sense and Sensibility	Accents/Dialects Iraqi Kurdish, Danish Arkansas (character of Shane) Australian New Orleans Yat, Plantation Southern Czech, RP RP, Estuary, Liverpool, NYC West Midlands, UK Yiddish (consultant) Northern Louisiana RP, Cockney RP, Italian 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 Mid-Atlantic Boston RP, Estuary, Cockney RP
	I have done self-study/coaching for my 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. 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