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Joey Siracusa: Biography
Joey Siracusa has spent his life creating, producing, and directing theatre. Mr. Siracusa is the Director of Classical Theater and Shakespeare at the New York Institute of Dance and Education.
He is currently producing/directing ROMEO & JULIET, and a new dramatic, musical, and choreographic version of OTHELLO, starring Sean McLeod, internationally acclaimed producer and choreographer. He is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Drama. Mr. Siracusa founded The Phone Booth theater company, and produced and directed in Europe for nearly a decade. His productions played in over 200 cities and more than 300 international theatre festivals including “The Festival of Fools” in 1982 and 1984. Mr. Siracusa was also chosen to create an original American Musical to represent American Culture for the festival of “750 Years of Berlin.”
Joey produced and founded of an Open Air Shakespeare Series at Bedford Thompson Vineyard near Santa Barbara, where he also directed Mid Summer Night's Dream for the grand opening.
Mr. Siracusa produced WORLDFEST '89 and '90, two major performing arts festivals in Atlanta where nearly 100 performances were featured in three days at seven venues for over 130,000 people. He has introduced more than fifty international groups and artists to the United States. WORLDFEST was covered by CNN Worldwide three times, ABC in L.A., MTV, and Playboy Magazine featured the event in The Grapevine with the B52s and Twin Peaks, in an article What’s Happening, Where It’s Happening, And Whose Making It Happen.
In the spring of 2001, Mr. Siracusa was selected by the National Endowment of the Arts to conduct a multiple discipline theatre project at the New World School of the Arts Conservatory. He created and directed a variety show for an original TV series called “Marty the Manatee” using theatre, music, dance, puppets, masks, and other theatrical devices in a fast-pace farce.
Mr. Siracusa has a solid background in working with “classic” literature and drama. His smash hit DORIAN based on Oscar Wilde’s THE PORTRAIGHT OF THE DORIAN GREY played to sold out audiences in Berlin and went on to play over 700 performances in seven countries. He collaborated with playwright and founder of SHEER MADNESS, George Isherwood creating and directing their own adaptation of NAPOLEON which was created for the grand opening of the Festival Of Fools 1984 in Amsterdam and went on to tour Europe for over four years. George and Mr. Siracusa also created a spoof on Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES retitled THE COW OF THE BASKET CASES. This outrageous farce sold out in Berlin and went on to play extended tours of Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Malaga, Majorca, and the Canary Islands. Mr. Siracusa also played a spectrum of parts for SHAKESPEARE’S GREATEST HITS an adaptation merging the most exciting scenes from HAMLET, MACBETH, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, and RICHARD III. This production played thousands of performances and won the GOLDEN BEAR AWARD for best show in Berlin.
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He has collaborated on theatre projects with prominent organizations worldwide and the governments of Holland, Germany, Italy, and Spain; the City of Berlin, City of Cologne, City of Amsterdam, City of Dusseldorf, City of Barcelona, City of Frankfurt, City of Atlanta, Bonn 2000, 750 Years Berlin, the Goethe Institute, Miami Dade County, the Bureau of Quebec, the State of New York, the Belgian Consul General, and the Cultural Senate of Berlin. He put together a large scale open-air spectacle with Italy’s renowned director, Leo Bassi, a collaboration between the USA, Italy and Germany.
Mr. Siracusa has been working with Eddie Foy III for the past ten years. Mr. Foy is one of the most respected casting directors in the entertainment industry. Mr. Siracusa is also the co-founder of The Eddie Foy III Hollywood Pro Series. These workshops about casting for television contain exclusive industry information from behind the scenes in Los Angeles. The access to this experience is extremely limited and not available to most entertainers and models.
Joey has produced this series in various places in the United States including: Las Vegas, San Diego, Donna Reed Foundation, University of Miami, New World School of the Arts, Miami International University, and Miami Beach at The Shelborne Beach Resort. You can visit the web site at (www.hollywoodproseries.com or www.eddiefoy.com).
Mr. Siracusa has directed theatre projects and taught acting classes with leading Universities and prominent theatre schools including Carnegie Mellon University, Miami International University of Art & Design, New World School of the Arts, University of Miami, University of South Florida, Ithaca College, Wells College, Internation Fine Ars College, and The University of Fine Art (Berlin). He also has conducted many theatre events and acting workshops with theatres in Holland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States.
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