Joshua Waterstone
Director, Actor, Producer for Theatre and Film
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
DIRECTING:
Directing Bright Light Burning at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2025 (COP 30) in Brazil with The Theatre of Others.
FIGHT DIRECTING:
Fight Director and Choreographer of Ken Ludwig's The Three Musketeers for Reno Little Theatres 90th anniversary season in Reno, NV.
Here are a few reviews:
“The cast is outstanding, and the fight scenes are spot on. Well-rehearsed and excellently directed, the cast brilliantly brings the story to the stage.
These are some of the best performances I have seen from these actors” -Reno Arts News
"Reno Little Theater busts out the swords for wild, swashbuckling musketeer action...
It's an impressive production. The costumes and choreography--There is a lot of sword fighting throughout--are coordinated and well-executed, especially for a fast-moving, dozen-plus cast."
-This is Reno News and Events
PRODUCING:
Digital Technical Director for The Theatre of Others.
Digital Producer, Editor and Live Broadcasting for COP 28 in Dubai, UAE, Sustainable Theatre Mentorship for COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, will also be part of COP 30 in Brazil with a new production TBA.
Steven Gaultney’s "Bright Light Burning" is a theatrical journey that merges artistry, storytelling, and environmental activism. Our interdisciplinary production aims to shift perspectives, evoke empathy, and galvanize audiences to take meaningful steps toward a sustainable future.
The theme of COP28 is “Adaptation.” To that end, our play, Bright Light Burning, will follow a found family of performers living in 2100. The world has changed, but human need has not. Audiences will witness the new ways our descendants have found to cherish and care for each other, all as they perform a history of their ancestors’ choices through the 77 years that stand between us and them. It is our hope that audiences will form a connection with these characters, one that reminds them that the future is worth all our effort.
What is digital producing?
Digital Production work essentially is a way to deal with production quality and design when broadcasting productions. It works in lieu of or in conjunction with a Lighting Designer, Set Designer, Sound Designer, Technical Director, Board Operators and Tech Support. To fulfill these roles a digital producer creates assets, troubleshoots technical needs, edits/designs and collaborates with other designers. The output is live producing/mixing in OBS at each performance/event, and optionally integrating each production with Live-Streaming or Recording.
TEACHING:
Currently teaching with Foothill College Theatre Studies, Cal Shakes, Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre and Associate Director of Yat/Bentley Centre for Performance.
ENSEMBLE:
Company Member with FoolsFURY.
Recent Projects with FoolsFURY
2021: Build Forward: Advocacy, Artistry, Adaptability
2020: Build From Here: The Future Of Ensemble Theatre: a digital convening.
2019: Performed in the Regional Premiere of DIONYSUS WAS SUCH A NICE MAN by Kate Tarker with Fools Fury
at Joe Goode Annex - San Francisco.
"As the Messenger, seemingly an outsider to this world, Waterstone is balletic with grace and timing as he butts his way into Alcinoe’s field of vision, yet unstudied, open to possibility, with an off-kilter twinkle in his delivery that never lets the world around him settle."
-Lily Janiak, Review SF CHRONICLE
An Alumni of PlayGround-SF's Directing Apprenticeship I have directed with Young Playwrights Project and Monday Night PlayGround at Potrero and Berkeley Rep Stages!
PlayGround is the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, providing unique opportunities for the cultivation and development of early-career local playwrights and partnerships with leading professional directors, actors and theatres. I look forward to meeting more playwrights, actors and directors in the Bay Area.
Available
BULLET by Becky Key Boesen, which I directed premiered at the New Orleans Fringe Festival.
The play is a fantasia that centers around the complicated relationship of Lincoln spree killer Charles Starkweather and his 14 year old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Contact me if you would like to bring this production to your theater.
Check out our Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/chuckandcarilann
