Joe is the Founding Artistic Director of Tricklock Company, the international 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. Joe is also the co-creator and producer of the Free Speech Comedy Art Series with Paul Provenza, now in it’s 5th season. From 2007 through 2008 Joe served as the producer for the Rubicon Theatre Company’s Rubicon International Theatre Festival in Ventura California 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 produced & directed Café Burlesque-O! for the Rubicon Theatre Company in 2008, and created and produced the long-running Reptilian Lounge Late-Night Cabaret, The Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Festival, and The Manoa Project Statewide Apprenticeship Program for Tricklock Company in New Mexico. He is now embarking on a new role serving as producer for the inaugural year of the California International Theatre Festival in 2009, in collaboration with the City of Calabasas. Joe has produced international tours for over a decade to theatres and festivals around the world including The Edinburgh International Festival, The New York International Fringe Festival, The Seattle, Vancouver, & Victoria Fringe festivals, Washington D.C.’s Hip Hop Theatre Festival, The Prague Quadrennial Festival, Confrontations Festival in Poland, & Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo, as well as to theatres in Budapest, Belgrade, Cologne, Prague, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago, University of New Mexico and Washington State University. Joe was a producer for and directed the sold-out Los Angeles run of BUKOWSICAL!, the wild musical about madman poet Charles Bukowski penned by Gary Stockdale (Emmy nominated composer for Penn & Teller) and Spencer Green (Mad TV, In Living Color), going on to produce the sold-out extended run of the show at the New York Fringe Festival in 2007, and winning the award for Outstanding Musical at the festival that same year. Joe produced three international tours of The Glorious & Bloodthirsty Billy The Kid 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. Joe has worked with and produced the works of numerous playwrights including Neil LaBute, Elana Greenfield, Mac Wellman, Elaine Avila, Idris Goodwin & Michael McClure. He has produced and co-produced independent film projects including 2008’s Tranny McGuyver & A Couple of Days & Nights, featured in film festivals from Los Angeles to Kansas City and Chicago. 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.
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