Noëlle Gentile | Acting Coach & Filmmaker

About

Noelle Gentile is a filmmaker and artist educator with more than 20 years of experience. Noëlle has also worked as an artist-educator for Youth FX; Arts, Letters & Numbers, the NYC Department of Education’s Theatre Program; City College of New York; and Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. She served as an adjunct professor for the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU Tisch teaching “Directing the Actor” and also facilitated a master class for the program, “Directing Children and First Time Actors”

Noëlle has worked alongside director, Jeremiah Zagar, serving as the acting coach on the 2018 Sundance NEXT Innovator Award winner, We The Animals,  Hustle (starring Adam Sandler) and Brad Ingelsby’s HBO Drama Series, Task. Noëlle facilitated pre-production workshops exploring the world, characters, relationships and building intimacy for directors Jeremiah Zagar and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, actors Mark Ruffalo, Emilia Jones, Silvia Dionicio, Tom Pelphrey and three first time actors. Most recently, Noëlle facilitated pre-production workshops for Jeremy Allen White, Leïla Behkti, Jeremiah Zagar and a child actor on Zagar's latest film, The Painted Bride.

Gentile also served as the acting coach on Chang Can Dunk (written and directed by Jingyi Shao),  Shooting Stars ( directed by Chris Robinson), You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (directed by Sammi Cohen), Origin (written and directed by Ava DuVernay), Rez Ball (written and directed by Sydney Freeland). Noëlle stepped into the role of co-producer for Netflix’s upcoming film, Don’t Say Good Luck. She returned to TASK for season two pre-production workshops with Rocío Guzman, Alaíde, Regina Nava and Carol Santiago. In June of 2026, Noëlle facilitated the opening day workshop on "Directing the Actor" for Director’s Lab Workshop at Sundance  and will return to the labs again next year.

Noëlle’s directorial debut, I Was Here, starring Raúl Castillo and Jordana Spiro, which is based on her family’s story, premiered at San Francisco International Film Festival on April 28th, 2024. She is co-directing a feature length documentary. Noëlle lives in upstate NY with her family.