Joseph Haj

Joseph Haj

Director, Henry V

Other theatres: Cyrano; The Illusion; Amadeus; Pericles; Henry IV, Parts I and II; Henry V; Well; Big River; As You Like It and others (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Hamlet (Folger Theatre); Guthrie Theater, The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and many others. Haj directed Henry V in a maximum-security prison in Los Angeles. International: Salzburg, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Japan, the West Bank and Gaza.

Other credits: Producing artistic director, PlayMakers Repertory Company. Acting: Worked with Garland Wright, Anne Bogart (as an original member of SITI Company), Jon Jory, Peter Sellars, Sir Peter Hall, JoAnne Akalaitis, Robert Woodruff and others.

Awards and honors: 2000 NEA Millennium Grant awarded to "50 of America's finest artists," participant in TCG's Career Development Program for Directors, named by American Theatre magazine as one of 25 theatre artists who will have a significant impact on the field over the next quarter century. Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Production (Hamlet). Member of TCG board of directors, and of Mark Russell's Director's Circle.