Joe Langworth is a multi-talented theatre artist who has worn many hats throughout his career: director, choreographer, casting director, performer, writer and teacher. He is currently the Resident Director of The Link Theatre Company.
As a director and dramaturg, Joe has helped develop new plays and musicals alike including Broken Snow by Ben Andron, Suicidal Life Coach by Ken Offricht, The Book of Merman by Leo Schwartz and DC Cathro and Baggage At The Door by Dana Aber.
Joe’s work re-examining musical theatre classics, such as West Side Story, Oklahoma!, and Carousel, has garnered him critical acclaim across the country, including nominations from the Los Angeles Critics Circle, BroadwayWorld and the Los Angeles Scenie Awards.
In NYC, Joe directed 2-time Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes in her cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle (recorded live on Broadway Records) and also created An Evening with Tony Award winner Paulo Szot, which debuted at The Spoleto Festival in Italy and went on to play NYC’s 54 Below.
Joe has collaborated with some of theatre’s finest talent, including Bartlett Sher and Christopher Gattelli on the Tony Award winning revival of South Pacific and Sheryl Kaller on the Tony nominated play Next Fall.
As a casting director with Telsey + Company, Joe contributed to numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including In the Heights, Rent, Dirty Dancing, South Pacific, Company, High Fidelity and others.
Joe’s Broadway performing debut was in the original production of Michael Bennett’s A Chorus Line. He went on to perform in the original production of Ragtime and the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Follies. He toured the U.S. and Europe with The Who’s Tommy, West Side Story, On the Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and more. He has performed regionally from the La Jolla Playhouse in California to the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. A career highlight…being one of “Ann-Margret’s boys” in her live stage show at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
Joe now shares his skills with the new generation of theatre artists. He was a professor with the theatre department at SUNY New Paltz and has been a guest of many other training programs including, NYU, Julliard, Cap 21, AMDA, Broadway Artists Alliance, Actor’s Connection, University of Hawaii, SUNY Ulster and his alma mater, SUNY Geneseo.
Joe’s new musical Fixing Frankie, written alongside composer Steve Marzullo, will premiere off-Broadway this fall at ART NY.