UC San Diego credits:
Monster (Director/Composer, WNPF ‘19), Life is a Dream, Tambo and Bones (WNPF 2018), A Raisin in the Sun (AD)

Contact Information
Department of Theatre & Dance
UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive MC0344
La Jolla, CA 92093-0344
Fax: (858) 534-1080
Email: joseph.hendel@gmail.com

Joseph Hendel
Third-year MFA Directing Candidate 

Education
BA in Music from Yale

Biography

Joseph Hendel is a third-year MFA Directing candidate from New York. He is a writer, director, and composer whose plays include Katzelmacher, USA (inspired by Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher, the cell), The Tasty Karp Hotel (Teatr Fredry in Gniezno, Poland), Playing with Masculinity (Have Art: Will Travel! Inc.), and Beware the Ides of Monday (the cell). Other directing credits: The Inner Circle (an opera about Alfred Kinsey at the Brick Theater’s F*ckfest), AVoid2Remember (Title:Point’s?! Festival), Appendage (1st Irish Theater Fest) and works by Brecht, Ionesco, Pirandello, and Gilbert and Sullivan. He is a resident artist at the cell, a two-time member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and is trained in clown and Commedia by master clown teacher Christopher Bayes. He is the co-bookwriter of the musical Open Road (NYSAF), an avid computer music composer, and holds a B.A. in Music from Yale College. He enjoys synthesizers, German-Jewish critical theory, and playing with his pet chihuahua, Molière. UC San Diego credits: Monster (Director/Composer, WNPF ‘19), Life is a Dream, Tambo and Bones (WNPF 2018), A Raisin in the Sun (AD).