Joy is a theatre artist, teacher, researcher, and writer who specializes in voice, speech, and identity-conscious work.
what people are saying…
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"Joy is my go-to accent coach. Super patient and adapts to my learning style. Has helped me greatly with several different accents over many years!"
Díana Bermudez, Actor
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"My experience working with Joy was absolutely wonderful. She made the process easy and accessible. She gave me the confidence and reassurance to perform with all the tools I needed to feel great. In part she helped me get a Drama Desk nomination for best featured actress. I will keep her number forever."
Sonnie Brown, Actor
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"Joy is such a warm, wonderful dialect coach! I reached out to her to learn some of the basics of a Mandarin and Cantonese accent. She had already prepared a trove of resources to help me fully understand and practice the accent! She's also very encouraging and goes deep into the technicals of the accent."
Felisha Wong, Actor
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"Joy was so compassionate and insightful during our sessions. I felt not only better about where I was with my character, but better about myself as a performer when we were finished!"
Jennifer Vosters, Actor
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"She helped me to discover nuances in the dialect variations that helped to inform acting choices, and contributed in major ways to the expression of the character. She also led the cast in vocal health education and gave us the proper tools and techniques to preserve and strengthen our voices for those rough double show days. I am so fortunate to have worked with Joy and have her at the top of my short list for all things voice and dialect."
Nick Jordan, Actor
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“As an Asian and queer actor, Asian accents always came with baggage, especially in North America. However, through her support and advocacy, Joy broke down the nuances of a variety of Asian accents and gave me the tools to approach the work with confidence and dignity.”
Tony Tran, Actor
alumni dolly award recipient
Joy sharing her acceptance speech to CCM Acting faculty and students.
Professor D’Arcy Smith presenting award.
With Acting professors (L to R): Samuel Stricklen, Brant Russell, and D’Arcy Smith.
On March 4, 2024 Joy (Acting ‘08) was awarded the Alumni Dolly Award by Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (CCM) Acting department for her career achievements. Selected by the Acting department’s faculty, Joy spent the day as a recipient meeting with each of the Acting department’s cohort as well as their affinity group on campus.
stages of reckoning: now available
Joy’s most recent publication is a book chapter titled “Societal Othering of Asian Americans and its Perpetuation Through Casting” for Amy Ginther’s Stages of Reckoning. It is a part of Routledge’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) series and will be published in 2023. The book Stages of Reckoning is a contemplation and conversation on how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces. Purchase for your institution or private collection.
accent resource of the philippines
vietgone
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Joy will serve as Dialect Coach at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Vietgone by Qui Nguyen.
An all-American love story about two very new Americans. It’s 1975. Saigon has fallen. He’s lost his wife, she’s lost her fiancé, and home as they’ve known it will never be the same. But this isn’t a story about war: It’s a story about falling in love. Based on playwright Qui Nguyen’s family, Vietgone tells the partially true and endlessly entertaining tale of how his parents, Quang and Tong, met in a refugee relocation camp in Arkansas during the Vietnam War. They navigate their very new lives as very new Americans amidst family pressure, the challenges of migration and a culture full of motorcycles, cowboys, fast food and dreams. With irreverent humor, hip-hop and heightened theatrical storytelling, this original story reinvents the romantic comedy genre and captures your heart.
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recent works
ATL learning and creative engagement
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Joy is thrilled to join Actor Theatre of Louisville’s Learning and Creative Engagement (LACE) department as a Teaching Artist. The school residencies unlock students’ potential with movement, writing, performance, and Storytelling (r)Evolutionized. Actors Theatre of Louisville teaching artists offer a range of classroom residencies, in-person and virtually, focused on creatively engaging your students.
the far country (closed)
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Joy will serve as Dialect Coach at Berkeley Rep’s production of The Far Country by Lloyd Suh. Directed by Jennifer Chang.
Following a critically acclaimed debut in New York, Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh brings The Far Country back to its roots in a triumphant West Coast premiere. In the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Moon Gyet has arrived at San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island Immigration Station with an invented biography and a new name, both given to him by a man who made the same arduous crossing several years earlier. But passage to San Francisco — and the dream of a better life for future generations — commands a very high price. Spanning two countries and three generations, Lloyd Suh’s breathtaking account of immigration, identity, and memory has been called “Artful…an act, loving and sorrowful, of reclamation” by The New York Times.
the heart sellers (closed)
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Joy serves as Dialect Coach for this remounting of Lloyd Suh’s THE HEART SELLERS at Huntington Theatre in Boston. Running November 29 - December 23, 2023.
Jane and Luna run into each other in the grocery store on Thanksgiving in 1973 and find they have much in common: each are recent Asian immigrants, a bit homesick and lonely with hardworking absentee husbands, and adjusting to a new country filled with new opportunities. Over sips of wine and a questionable frozen turkey, they dream of disco dancing, learning to drive, and even a visit to Disneyland, and share their hopes and challenges for making a new home in a new land with grace and dignity. A funny, moving, and big-hearted new play.
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king john (closed)
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Joy will make her Assistant Directing debut alongside Rosa Joshi for upstart crow collective’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s King John .
Unfolding in a treacherous world ruled by self-interest, warmongering, and a lack of moral leadership, this fascinating political thriller follows a scheming monarch battling threats from abroad and within. This visually captivating interpretation from director Rosa Joshi and upstart crow collective—a company reimagining the classics with diverse casts of women and non-binary actors—has been called “a knockout” (Seattle Weekly) that evokes “with surprising clarity the misuses of power that plague us in the present” (The Portland Observer).
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loving & loving (closed)
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Joy worked alongside Actors Theatre of Louisville once again, serving as Dialect Coach for Loving and Loving by Beto O’Byrne and directed by Amelia Acosta-Powell. Running February 7-18, 2024.
The play is inspired by the lives of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple from Virginia who were arrested in 1958 for the crime of being married. Told from a distinctly 21st-century perspective, the play weaves together the story of the Lovings’ landmark civil rights struggle and interviews with mixed-heritage folx in the Kentuckiana community—thoughtfully exploring the joys and challenges of multiracial identity, and exuberantly celebrating our right to love who we choose.
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in the news
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Wave3 Interview: King John
Joy joins anchor Brian Schlonsky to discuss ATL’s production of KING JOHN and the upcoming season.
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Arts-Louisville op-ed
"By its very nature, theatre is a vehicle for healing and processing our life experiences. It allows audiences to take on varied perspectives and provides a space for critical judgment, self-reflection, and the practice of empathy. Remarkably, ATL upholds this notion by naming ‘the intersection of art and wellness’ as one of their key impact goals…”
-Joy Lanceta Coronel, Arts-Louisville.com
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Inquirer.net Interview
“Currently in rehearsals, Coronel has been working one-on-one with the actors. “We’ve been spending a lot of time researching, discussing, and integrating socio-political events like the Hart Cellar Act and women’s rights, in addition to how women from Korea and the Philippines during the 1970s would think, act, speak, and behave.”
She believes the play is a ‘beautiful, universal story accessible to people from all backgrounds, and is yet still culturally specific and true to the identities represented.’”
- Walter Ang, Inquirer
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Broadway World Review
“That storytelling is brought to life by the genuine performances of two brilliant actors: Nicole Javier and Narea King as Luna and Jane, respectively. Each is making their Milwaukee Rep debut with The Heart Sellers.From their quirks to impressive broken-English accent work (shoutout to voice & dialect coach Joy Lanceta Coronel), Javier and King fully embody these women.”
-Kelsey Lawler, Broadway World
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Wave3 Interview: Dracula
Dialect/Voice Coach Joy Lanceta Coronel and Executive Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming discuss Dracula with Wave 3’s Dawne Gee.
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Actors Theatre of Louisville Behind-the-Scenes
Behind-the-scenes discussion with the creatives and cast from Actors Theatre of Louisville’s DRACULA.
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Den of Geek
Professional dialect coaches on the importance of authenticity and the best and worst examples of on-screen accents.
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Boston Globe: The Heart Sellers
The simplicity of “The Heart Sellers,” in which two young women talk and laugh while a Thanksgiving turkey roasts, may seem a surprising topic from playwright Lloyd Suh, who has been writing sweeping plays about the Asian American experience.
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New England Theatre Geek
“The dialect coaching by Joy Lanceta Coronel adds layers to the actress’s storytelling. When we hear their characters’ accents, we remember that it’s 1973. Luna and Song face an uphill battle as immigrants with no direct comparison to today’s difficulties. These strong, resilient women have few city resources. It’s wondrous that they now have each other.“ -Kitty Drexel
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Backstage.com
“Wong trained with dialect coach Joy Lanceta Coronel—a step Yee advises fellow creatives embrace: ‘Actors don’t come with their own perfect set of accents, nor should we expect that of him. Giving actors the tools to succeed and being specific and accurate of what your needs are helps an actor feel empowered to play the role.’”
