Hello. My name’s Joseph. I’m a theatre artist. I’ve studied, worked, taught, and made friends in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, Taipei, and Central Florida. I’ve recently moved to the Greater Boston area and look forward to making Great Theatre here.
My passion is exploring new ways of making and seeing theatre that are inclusive and inspiring. Through my work I aim to create flexible perspectives and contexts in which to embrace change.
Most of my professional work has been in scenic design (click here to see a full list of design credits). Details about some of that work can be found on my “scenic design” page.
I have also had wonderful opportunities to engage with theatre students throughout my career. Information about some of that work can be found on my “educational theatre” page.
For two years, my wife and I produced original plays in the small town of Rockledge, FL as miR theatre. With miR, we commissioned and hosted visiting playwrights to immerse themselves in the natural, historic, and cultural environment of the area and to generate new plays reflecting that experience. Cereus Moonlight, by playwright Sarah Shotland, premiered in Rockledge in 2013 and was accepted into and presented at the Rhinoceros Theatre Festival in Chicago in 2014. Jazz/Reade by Giles Gonnsen premiered in Rockledge in 2014, and Coquina Regent by Aaron Dean was given a public reading in Rockledge in 2014.
For the past 5 years I have been adapting, producing, designing, and directing plays by modernist author Gertrude Stein. You can learn about that work on my “geography and plays” page.
Scenic Design Credits
Brevard Public Schools | Brevard County, FL
Hamlet
Peter Pan
The Addams Family
Wait Until Dark
Big Fish
Alice in Wonderland
Fiddler on the Roof
West Side Story
Clue
Chess
Fever Originals | New York, NY
Mad Hatter (Gin &) Tea Party
The Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse | Cocoa, FL
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
A Christmas Carol
42nd Street
The Secret Garden
Spamalot
Disney’s The Little Mermaid
A Christmas Story
Anything Goes
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
The Producers
Butterfly Effect Theatre Co. | Taipei, ROC
The Bomb-itty of Errors
miR theatre | Rockledge, FL
Jazz/Reade
Cereus Moonlight
Mabou Mines | New York City, NY
Glass Guignol, workshop
Looking Glass Theatre | NewYork City, NY
West of the Sun, East of the Moon
NAATCo | New York City, NY
A Dream Play
Anonymous Ensemble | Brooklyn, NY
Liebe! Love! Amour!
Factory Theater | Chicago, IL
Easy Six
Black and Blue
The Gray Girl
The League of Awesome
Prop Thtr | Chicago, IL
The Feast
The Darkest Pit
Love Sauce
Curious Theatre Branch | Chicago, IL
Clumsy Sublime
The Buzz That Is The Buzz
The Artistic Home | Chicago, IL
Trouble in Mind
Days to Come
Skin of Our Teeth
Sideshow Theatre Company | Chicago, IL
Ekphrasis: Cave Walls to Soup Cans
Brain Surgeon Theatre | Chicago, IL
And He Flew Over the Forest
Christmas Spectacular, 1976
1512 West Studebaker Place
Johnny Ten Bones
The NOLA Project
The Wind in the Willows