Joseph Anthony Foronda

AEA Member
Joseph Foronda

Major Meryl and Ensemble in The Yeomen of the Guard (February 24–May 29)

In one season at OSF: Director in Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land; Soothsayer in Antony and Cleopatra 

Other theatres: Broadway: Engineer in Miss Saigon (Broadway Theatre; 1st/2nd national tours); Samurai, Soothsayer, Thief, Storyteller in Pacific Overtures (Roundabout Theatre Company); Lord Buntaro in SHOGUN: The Musical (Marquis Theatre). Regional/International: Archie Beaton in Brigadoon (Goodman Theatre); Zhong Yi in Stuck Elevator (American Conservatory Theater); Ridge in The House That Jack Built (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Man Over 60 in The Golden Dragon (Studio Theatre); HYH in Yellowface (Silk Road Rising); Sitting Bull in Annie Get Your Gun (Ravinia Festival); Wang Chi-Yang in Flower Drum Song (AMTSJ); Nick/Prudencio in The Romance of Magno Rubio (Victory Gardens Theater); Javert in Les Miserables, The King in The King & I (Weston Playhouse); Frog in A Year with Frog & Toad (Chicago Children’s Theatre); Narrator in La Posada Magica (Teatro Vista); El Gallo in The Fantasticks (East West Players); Reciter in Pacific Overtures (Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Donmar Warehouse, U.K.).

Film: Contagion, Formosa Betrayed. 

Awards: Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago): Miss Saigon, Pacific Overtures. 

Training: BA in Music, San Jose State University.