Artist Bio

Joe Calarco is a multiple award-winning director and playwright. His Off- Broadway credits include Patrick Barlow’s A Christmas Carol, In Transit, R&J (adaptor/director), Sarah Plain and Tall, The Burnt Part Boys, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Boy, in the absence of spring (writer/director), The Memory Show, and Bury the Dead. He has extensive regional credits at theaters including TUTS, Signature Theater, The Old Globe, ACT, Philadelphia Theater Company, The Shakespeare Company, Chicago Shakespeare Company, Round House Theater, Theatre J, the Folger Theater, and Barrington Stage Company among others. His work has been produced on the West End, and he has developed work at Lincoln Center, Second Stage, Primary Stages, The O’Neill Musical Theater Conference, Goodspeed, the Yale Institute for Music Theater, Mercury Musical Development in London and the National Theater in London. He is the winner of the Lucille Lortel Award, 4 Helen Hayes, 2 Barrymore Awards, a Berkshire Theater Critics Award, and has been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and the Evening Standard Award.

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