Joshua Waterstone
Advanced Acting, Stage Combat, Audition Skills
he/him
Joshua works in theatre and film as a director, performer, producer/ digital producer, fight choreographer and educator. In the Bay Area Joshua has performed with foolsFURY, Ragged Wing Ensemble and San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Directed with PlayGround at Berkeley Rep, Ragged Wing Ensemble and New Century Symphony and is T.D./Digital Producer for Fuse Theatre’s Co-Exist Festival and the international company The Theatre of Others. Nationally he has performed with Georgia Shakespeare, Fly By Theatre, Essential Theatre, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre, Georgia Mountain Theatre, Push-Push Theatre and Film, Jewish Theatre of the South and Georgia Ensemble Theatre. Joshua also works as a director, fight choreographer and educator in the Bay Area with Cal Shakes, LEAP, San Francisco Youth Theatre, Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Dragon Theatre and Shakespearience. Joshua has also worked in collegiate theatre as a director and educator with Guilford College, Guilford Technical Community College, Forsyth Tech, U.N.L. and Foothills College. He is an associate member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, an Actor-Combatant and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Directing for Theatre and Film.
Joshua believes that theatre arts curricula and programming are not only useful, but essential in bringing voice to historically marginalized populations. Joshua participates in multiple economic and social justice initiatives in the Bay Area as part of TASC (Theatres Advancing Social Change) Theatre Bay Area cohort along with the cohort Pathways to Belonging: Building Anti-Racist Practices at Your Theatre. He believes that self awareness, growth as well as ensemble practice is a pathway to social change. At SFYT since 2018. www.waterstonejoshua.wix.com/director
“I like working at SFYT because the students form great relationships in our classes and become an ensemble by creating/imagining together. In my classes I want my students to develop self confidence, celf awareness, and the ability to work with others as an ensemble.”
