Hello, and welcome to JoshCostello.com. I am the Artistic Director of Expanded Programs at Marin Theatre Company. MTC is my artistic home, but I will continue to seek freelance directing work in the Bay Area and beyond.

For more information, to set up an interview, to request a DVD portfolio, or to offer me a directing job, please email me at joshcostello at gmail dot com.



Lovers & Executioners
Nov/Dec 2007
Lovers & Executioners is "a buoyant bounty of bright comic acting, fractured rhymed couplets and delicious tongue-in-cheek design...
a strong Marin directorial debut for Costello"...
-San Francisco Chronicle

 

Hamlet

Shakespeare-by-the-Sea
outdoor performances in parks around LA and Orange County


House of Lucky
critically-acclaimed, award winning show at The Magic in San Francisco


Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead

UW Seattle
MFA Thesis production


The Rover
KOCE-TV
The Chance Theatre

we remounted my adaptation for a live television broadcast
TV interview
following the live broadcast of The Rover on Orange County's PBS station

macbeth

Macbeth

The MET Theatre, Hollywood


Marisol
Ethnic Cultural Theatre,
Seattle


CV

(teaching resumé)

.pdf version


Bio

Josh Costello is the Artistic Director of Expanded Programs at Marin Theatre Company, where he recently directed the Bay Area premiere of Lovers & Executioners. Other directing work includes House of Lucky at The Magic, Romeo and Juliet: A Fire Ballet at The Crucible in Oakland, Hamlet at Shakespeare-by-the-Sea in LA, and his adaptation of The Rover for The Chance Theater in Orange County and for a live television broadcast on LA and Orange County's PBS affiliate. Josh was the founder and first Artistic Director of Impact Theatre. He was the Education Director at the Marin Shakespeare Company, and has taught at ACT, Cal Shakes, SF Shakes, UC Riverside, Cal State Long Beach, South Coast Rep, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood. Josh holds a BFA in Theatre from Boston University, and an MFA in Directing from the University of Washington, Seattle.

8/08 -Ubu for President, my adaptation of Ubu Roi, is now playing at John Hinkle Park in Berkeley with The Shotgun Players. Great reviews, too!

Ubu


5/08 - Marin Theatre Company has announced the 2008-09 Season; I'll be directing My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard in January 2009.
11/07 - Lovers & Executioners was a hit at Marin Theatre Company. Click here for photos, video, and reviews.

"Costello's inspired imagination"

"Josh Costello has wrought an organic production whose every facet fits the larger mosaic, forming a harsh, wrenching, bittersweet tale"

"Costello's ingenious spin... one of the cleverest and most well-intentioned plays in some time"

"a delight from beginning to end"

"Costello's seamless staging"

"Costello directs with a sure hand"

"Josh Costello has directed the show with tremendous attention to detail"
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