Biography

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 most recently Brad Ingelsby’s HBO Drama Series, Task. Noëlle facilitated pre-production workshops for directors Jeremiah Zagar and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, actors Mark Ruffalo, Emilia Jones, Silvia Dionicio, Tom Pelphrey and three first time actors.

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’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. Noëlle lives in upstate NY with her family.
- IMDb mini biography by: Noelle Gentile