Josh Grisetti, Stage Director – Josh Grisetti is an actor, director, educator, and author. As a performer, Josh originated the title role of “Marty Kaufman” in It Shoulda Been You on Broadway (for which he won the 2015 Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards); he also starred in Broadway’s Something Rotten! and Neil Simon’s revival of Broadway Bound.  Off-Broadway, Josh starred in Rent, Peter and the Starcatcher, Enter Laughing (Theatre World Award winner; Drama Desk, OCC, Drama League and Lucille Lortel nominations), as well as Red Eye of Love, Candida, and After the Ball. Favorite regional credits include Ragtime, Spongebob, and Grease! (Broadway at Music Circus), Prince of Broadway (Tokyo), Camelot (The Kennedy Center), Matilda (The Muny), How to Succeed in Business… (Reprise Theatre – Ovation Award & Garland Award winner), Beauty & the Beast (LaMirada — Ovation Award nomination), Funny Thing…Forum (Williamstown), Spamalot (Wynn Las Vegas and Ogunquit Playhouse), Where’s Charley? (Goodspeed) and others. On television, Josh starred in the ABC sitcom The Knights of Prosperity, as well as multiple series regular roles in pilots for other major networks, played a recurring role on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime, and has appeared on CBS’s The Good Fight, Showtime’s Nurse Jackie and MTV’s Made. Film credits include The Immigrant, Revolutionary Road, The Namesake and others. Josh directed the regional premier of Something Rotten! at Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA, and It Shoulda Been You at Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles.

Josh currently serves as Associate Professor of Musical Theatre at California State University Fullerton, and previously taught acting, musical theatre, and business of theatre at both Fullerton College and Loyola Marymount University. Josh also authored the book, God In My Head (Tantor Media), an Amazon.com #1 best-seller in “Spirituality and Religious Psychology.” Follow @joshgrisetti, or visit www.joshgrisetti.com for more!

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