JOSHUA MORGAN

Joshua Morgan has spent much of his career moving between the familiar and the unexpected. As an actor, director, producer, and educator, he's interested in the places where things get complicated. Where people surprise themselves. Where something funny can become deeply uncomfortable, or something devastating can become unexpectedly funny. He's equally fascinated by the worlds art allows us to enter, the ones that feel so immediate and alive that, for a little while, we forget the one we came from.

On Broadway, Joshua originated the role of legendary manager Shelly Berger in Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, spending four years with the original company. He also appeared in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables. His television credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Organized Crime, FBI, and Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.

More recently, he played Tristan in Safety Not Guaranteed at Signature Theatre and the Baker in Into the Woods. Next, he'll take on Lenny in the world premiere of Aaron Posner's The Cherry Tortured at Milwaukee Rep. Other regional acting credits include Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Olney Theatre Center, North Carolina Theatre, and Triad Stage, among others.

As a director, Joshua loves talent. Loves collaboration. Loves the possibility that a room full of wildly different creative minds might arrive somewhere none of them could have imagined alone. He's fascinated by the worlds artists create together, where design, performance, music, and storytelling can become something far greater than the sum of their parts. His work, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, In Love and Warcraft (Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Last Five Years, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Suicide, Incorporated, and Touch, is guided by two deceptively simple questions: Is the story clear? And do we care? He brings a strong point of view to the room, but he's far more interested in what happens when everyone else brings theirs, too.

Before moving to New York, Joshua co-founded No Rules Theatre Company, an award-winning theatre company operating in both Washington, DC, and Winston-Salem, NC. As Artistic Director, he spent six years producing, directing, developing new work, and building a company around the idea that the way things have always been done isn't necessarily the way they should be done. His work there also included creating accessibility initiatives for Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences and communities with limited access to theatre.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joshua has returned to his alma mater as an adjunct faculty member, teaching singing and courses focused on the professional development of emerging actors and directors. His work in the classroom builds on more than a decade spent developing and mentoring artists through Artist's Strategy, the creative career development company he founded. At the heart of it all is a belief that artists should be as intentional about building their lives and careers as they are about building their work, without losing sight of why they wanted to make art in the first place. He's also taught at American University, Gallaudet University, and the Catholic University of America.