Joe is the Founding Artistic Director of Tricklock Company, the internationally acclaimed professional touring company in residence at the University of New Mexico, and the founder of the state’s premier annual performing arts event The Revolutions International Theatre Festival in Albuquerque & Santa Fe, now in its 10th season. His directing credits include over a decade of productions including contemporary and classical published plays, world premiere original plays, and his own original writing. Joe’s award winning directing work has been seen on stages in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Edinburgh and many more cities and universities throughout the U.S., Europe, and Canada. In 2008 Joe created, directed, & performed in Café Burlesque-O! for the Rubicon Theatre Company of Ventura, California, and served as directing & staging consultant for the world premiere of The Queen of Sheba at the KingKing in Hollywood. Joe also directed & produced the sold-out Los Angeles run of BUKOWSICAL!, the outrageous musical about drunken madman poet Charles Bukowski, and went on to win the award for Outstanding Musical 2007 at the New York International Fringe Festival. In 2006 he directed & starred in the five-month run of the hit rock-opera Taking The Jesus Pill in Los Angeles, and directed the world premiere of Idris Goodwin’s Danger Face: The Slow Burn at Chicago’s Prop Theatre produced by Curious Theatre and Hermit Arts. Joe’s original play created with members of Tricklock entitled The Glorious & Bloodthirsty Billy The Kid completed three international tours to Chicago (Critics Pick: Chicago Tribune/Sun Times), Los Angeles (Critics Pick: LA Times/LA Weekly/Variety), Calgary, Belgrade, Krakow, & Cologne, and brought home the Spirit of the Fringe Award from the Edinburgh Festival in 2005. He has served as Assistant Director to Moises Kaufman (Laramie Project) on Carmen, and has worked with numerous playwrights including Elana Greenfield, Neil LaBute, Mac Wellman, Elaine Avila, & Michael McClure, directing, producing, and performing their plays. Joe created the long-running Reptilian Lounge Late-Night Cabaret, now in its 13th season, The Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Festival, and The Manoa Project Statewide Apprenticeship Program, now in its 6th season, and is the co-creator and producer of the Free Speech Comedy Art Series with Paul Provenza, now in it’s 5th season, all for Tricklock Company in New Mexico. From 2007 through 2008 Joe was the staff producer for the Rubicon Theatre Company’s Rubicon International Theatre Festival in its inaugural year, including producing the theatre’s first professional Apprenticeship Program with college students and faculty from around the US and the world. He is now embarking on a new role serving as Founding Producer for the inaugural year of the California International Theatre Festival in 2009, in collaboration with the City of Calabasas. Joe is the recipient of New Mexico Business Weekly’s “Top-Forty-Under-40” Arts Professionals award in 2005, and has served as a consultant to the Albuquerque Department of Cultural Services in support of Mayor Martin Chavez’ transition team, and as a member of Albuquerque’s Film Advisory Board. Joe is a member of Actor’s Equity Association & the Screen Actor’s Guild.
|
|
