Joseph Haj

Directing:

PlayMakers: Nicholas Nickleby, Well, Pericles, Amadeus, The Illusion, Cyrano de Bergerac (also adapted), Not About Heroes. Upcoming: As You Like It, Amadeus with the North Carolina Symphony and Big River (with the Red Clay Ramblers),

Regional: Hamlet at the Folger Theatre, Washington, DC; The Roads that Lead Here at  Actors Theatre of Louisville; As You Like It and  Metamorphoses at the Clarence Brown Theatre.

Acting:

PlayMakers: When the Bulbul Stopped Singing (also for New Works: Now at the New York Shakespeare Festival).
Other theatres include: Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as in Salzburg, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Venice and Japan.

Joseph has worked with many of the theatre’s foremost directors including Joanne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart, Peter Sellars, Robert Woodruff, Garland Wright, Michael Grief, Sir Peter Hall and Jon Jory. TV appearances include 24, Without a Trace, NCIS, The Agency, Crossing Jordan and Charmed.

Awards and service: Joseph is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Grant awarded in 2000 to 50 of America’s finest artists. He is the beneficiary of the NEA/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program for Directors and he has been named by American Theatre magazine as one of 25 artists who will have a significant impact on the field in the next quarter century. Joseph has served on adjudicating panels for the NEA and TCG and has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of TCG, the service organization for the not-for profit American theatre.