WHAT'S HAPPENING...
Joe is the fight director for Quest Players' upcoming return of The Ragged Foils, coming in early 2023! As fight director, director and creator of Shrewd Steel: The Swords of Shakespeare! and Brawl Ridiculous, he guides the group as they tour schools in and around New York City with the goal of introducing Shakespeare and stage combat to students!!
Joe was nominated for a 2019 Broadway World regional award for best choreography for his work on the critically-acclaimed musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island performed at the Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick, ME.
Joe served as stunt coordinator for the independent feature films Know Fear and The Depths, now available on Amazon! The Depths won Best Feature Film at both the Manhattan Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Awards!!
The fantasy epic Tower of Silence, also featuring Joe's fight and stunt coordination, is available on Tubi and on Amazon!
Joe was nominated for a 2019 Broadway World regional award for best choreography for his work on the critically-acclaimed musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island performed at the Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick, ME.
Joe served as stunt coordinator for the independent feature films Know Fear and The Depths, now available on Amazon! The Depths won Best Feature Film at both the Manhattan Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Awards!!
The fantasy epic Tower of Silence, also featuring Joe's fight and stunt coordination, is available on Tubi and on Amazon!
RECENT WORK...
Joe's recent work includes serving as the fight director for As You Like It and The Cure at Troy, both at Quest Players. He served as fight director, director and creator of Shrewd Steel: The Swords of Shakespeare (a time-traveling tour of swords in Shakespeare), and All Is Fair, Parts 1 and 2, (an examination of Love and War in Shakespeare's plays), also at Quest Players.
Other recent work also includes Shakespeare In Love at Albany's Capital Repertory Theatre and the musical adaptation of Treasure Island by Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark at both Maine State Music Theatre and the Fulton Theatre. Joe also fight directed the immersive guerrilla folk - opera Counting Sheep, about the Maidan revolution in the Ukraine, which had its New York premier at 3 Legged Dog. He also fight directed the Off-Broadway premier of the musical The View Upstairs at the Lynn Redgrave Theatre.
Joe currently holds the dual rank of Certified Fight Director with both the Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors, Canada. He has been trained in Intimacy Direction by Theatrical Intimacy Education.
Joe continues to head the Stage Combat Program at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and serves as the Managing Director of Swordplay, a NYC-based school of stage combat, and as the Artistic Director of Quest Players.
Other recent work also includes Shakespeare In Love at Albany's Capital Repertory Theatre and the musical adaptation of Treasure Island by Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark at both Maine State Music Theatre and the Fulton Theatre. Joe also fight directed the immersive guerrilla folk - opera Counting Sheep, about the Maidan revolution in the Ukraine, which had its New York premier at 3 Legged Dog. He also fight directed the Off-Broadway premier of the musical The View Upstairs at the Lynn Redgrave Theatre.
Joe currently holds the dual rank of Certified Fight Director with both the Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors, Canada. He has been trained in Intimacy Direction by Theatrical Intimacy Education.
Joe continues to head the Stage Combat Program at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and serves as the Managing Director of Swordplay, a NYC-based school of stage combat, and as the Artistic Director of Quest Players.
JOE IN PRINT...
The Fall 2020 issue of the SAFD journal, The Fight Master includes the latest installment of Joe's regular column "Fight Matters".
ON THE ROAD...
Recent travels have found Joe receiving a certification in the use of muskets and fowling pieces under the tutelage of NMLRA instructors in Colonial Williamsburg, studying Renaissance polearms with Maestro Alessandro Battistini at Sala D'Arme Achille Marozzo in Florence and undergoing gladiator training with Gruppo Storico Romano in Rome, Italy.
Joe continues to work on his skills with the recurve bow at Gotham Archery.
Joe continues to work on his skills with the recurve bow at Gotham Archery.