Joseph Haj

Director

Directing:
PlayMakers: Well, Pericles, Amadeus, The Illusion, Cyrano de Bergerac (also adapted), Not About Heroes.

Regional: (Actors Theatre of Louisville); As You Like It, Metamorphoses (Clarence Brown Theatre).
Upcoming:Hamlet (Folger Theatre, Washington, DC. Spring 2010).

Acting:
PlayMakers: When the Bulbul Stopped Singing.
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: 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 recently 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.