CRAIG ANTHONY JOSEPH (EMC) 847.456.2030 (H) / [email protected]
DIRECTING Smokefall Seat of the Pants (OH) West Side Story Akron Symphony (OH) The End of the Tour Seat of the Pants Anything Goes Mount Union University (OH) Molly Sweeney Seat of the Pants Above and Beyond Playwrights Local (OH) Les Liaisons Dangereuses Weathervane Playhouse (OH) Doubt Players Guild Theatre (OH) Amahl and the Night Visitors Resonance Works (PA) A Secret Gift Canton Symphony (OH) The Christians Seat of the Pants That Championship Season Seat of the Pants The Flick Weathervane Playhouse Side by Side by Sondheim Resonance Works Bus Stop Aurora Theatre Make House Playwrights Local The Best Man Seat of the Pants Trouble in Tahiti Resonance Works Picnic Seat of the Pants Avenue Q Aurora Theatre South Pacific Akron Symphony A Delicate Balance Weathervane Playhouse Other Desert Cities Aurora Theatre Frankenstein: The Puppet Opera Seat of the Pants A Midsummer Night’s Dream Akron Symphony Peter Pan Players Guild Theatre Steel Magnolias Players Guild Theatre Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Aurora Theatre God of Carnage Seat of the Pants Legally Blonde Players Guild Theatre Titanic, the Musical Akron Symphony Hairspray Players Guild Theatre The Wizard of Oz Players Guild Theatre The Elephant Man Players Guild Theatre Then Waves (new work) Players Guild Theatre The Wiz White Horse Theatre Company (IL) Spoon River Anthology Trinity International University (IL) Adam and Eve on a Ferry Rogue Theatre Company (IL) The Cradle Will Rock White Horse Theatre Company Over the River and Through the Woods Big Noise Theatre (IL) Pump Boys and Dinettes (AD) Big Noise Theatre Cotton Patch Gospel Skin of Our Teeth (IL) Musings (new work) Arts Alliance (IL) The Threepenny Opera Arts Alliance The Waltz Invention (AD) Strawdog Theatre Company (IL) Imagine Drowning (AD) Strawdog Theatre Company Blue Laws (new work) Wake Forest University Theater (NC) The Glass Menagerie Anthony Aston Players (NC)
ACTING This (Alan) Dobama Theatre (OH) Alabama Story (Garth Williams) Ensemble Theatre (OH) Angels in America, Parts 1 & 2 (Louis Ironson) Ensemble Theatre Well (Head Nurse and others) Ensemble Theatre Chesapeake (Kerr) Seat of the Pants Good People (Stevie Grimes) Aurora Theatre Assassins (Charles Guiteau) Players Guild Theatre Into the Woods (The Baker) Aurora Theatre These Shining Lives (Rufus Reed) Kent State University (OH) Avenue Q (Bad Idea Bear) Players Guild Theatre Clybourne Park (Karl / Steve) Weathervane Playhouse Shrek, the Musical (Lord Farquaad) Players Guild Theatre Our Town (Editor Webb) Parallax Ensemble (OH) Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind Parallax Ensemble The Master Builder (Ragnar) New Leaf Theatre (IL) The Oresteia (Tyndareus / Phrygian) Rogue Theatre Company (IL) Sick Day (Will) Bailiwick Repertory Theatre (IL) Damn Yankees (Smokey) Big Noise Theatre The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (Greenwald) Sebastian Players (IL) Lysistrata (Choragos) Sebastian Players Chicago (Amos Hart) North Shore Theatre (IL) Picnic (Howard Bevans) Arts Alliance Noises Off (Lloyd Dallas) Arts Alliance Holy Ghosts (Rogers Canfield) Anthony Aston Players Our Country’s Good (Sideway / Collins) Anthony Aston Players The Tempest (Gonzalo) Anthony Aston Players The Boys Next Door (Arnold Wiggins) Anthony Aston Players The Threepenny Opera (The Streetsinger) Anthony Aston Players The Country Wife (Sir Jasper Fidget) Anthony Aston Players Lost in Yonkers (Eddie) Anthony Aston Players West Side Story (Action) Anthony Aston Players DRAMATURGY Crazy Man Weathervane Playhouse Bach at Leipzig Writers’ Theatre (IL) The Children’s Hour TimeLine Theatre (IL) Baden Lehrstuck Red Tape Theatre (IL) The Dark at the Top of the Stairs American Theatre Company (IL) A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Northlight Theatre (IL)
TRAINING MA in Theatre (Directing Emphasis): Northwestern University Acting: Jamie Koeth Directing: Craig Kinzer, Mary Zimmerman, David Petrarca Playwriting / Screenwriting: Act One: Writing for Hollywood Master Classes: James Earl Jones & Alec Baldwin (Acting) / Robert Lepage (Directing)
Completed Modules 1 and 2: Michael Chekhov Teacher Certification Program Schedule to Complete Module 3 in June 2020
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT Artistic Director, Seat of the Pants, Canton, OH (June 2012 – Current) Director in Residence, Players Guild Theatre, Canton, OH (2012 – 2013 Season) Director / Producer, The Upper Room, Minneapolis, MN (June 2007 – Sept 2009) Director / Producer, Willow Creek Church, Barrington, IL (Feb 2003 – Nov 2005)