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STAGE & STORY

Brandon Joseph

Building theatre that refuses to sit quietly

Theatre Director • Choreographer • Dramaturg

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Upcoming productions

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Spirals & Dirt

San Francisco, CA • Potrero Stage • Feb 16 (2:00 PM & 7:00 PM)

A staged reading of a new musical by Sean Breen, produced by Barbara Burgel, with direction by Brandon Joseph. A powerful new work that invites audiences into a world shaped by memory, resilience, and the unexpected ways we grow through what breaks us. Join us for this one-night-only reading—a chance to be part of the early life of a new play.

Potrero Stage
1695 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
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Stations III

San Francisco, CA • Grace Cathedral • Spring 2026

The third installment in a triptych of site-specific movement pieces exploring ritual, reflection, and unexpected spaces. Part performance and part spiritual journey, it invites audiences to experience theatre as pilgrimage.

Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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Hadestown

Denver, CO • Anshutz Theatre • June 25–26 (June 25th @ 10am & 6pm, June 26th @ 1pm & 6pm)

A Summer at Kent Denver Mainstage production by Brandon Joseph & Niel Trujulio. A production of Anaïs Mitchell's Tony Award-winning musical bringing the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to life through contemporary storytelling and powerful music.

Anshutz Theatre
4000 E Quincy Ave, Englewood, CO 80113
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Hogwarts School

San Francisco, CA • Cathedral School for Boys • June 9–13 (9am to 3pm)

An immersive theatre experience that is part spectacle and part theatre. Join us as we gather under the summer sun for this one-of-a-kind event that will be the highlight of your camper's summer.

Cathedral School for Boys
1275 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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The Jungle Book Kids

San Francisco, CA • Cathedral School for Boys • July

This Theatre Camp with Summer at CSB has turned into an annual joy and fills up quick!

Cathedral School for Boys
1275 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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Work

Recent Productions

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Studio

Mission-led craft

A rehearsal room built with intention, not chaos.

Craft & Imagination

Where disciplined craft meets avant-garde imagination. Theatre that is architecturally sharp, emotionally honest, and fiercely alive.

Protected Process

Every rehearsal room is a sanctuary. We honor collaboration as a privilege and protect the creative process with rigor and care.

Excellence Without Pretension

Professional-grade work that stays human. Grounded in creative honesty and respect for both the art and the artists.

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About

Brandon Joseph

My directing philosophy? Believe it and Become it!

I'm stepping into a new chapter as a director whose work merges disciplined craft with avant-garde imagination. After years of building performing arts programs, shaping youth-driven ensembles, and developing new theatrical work across the Bay Area, I'm moving fully into a national directing identity—one grounded in clarity, ambition, and real momentum.

My directing pulls from a wide creative lineage: the rigor of classical text, the charge of queer nightlife performance, the immediacy of devised processes, and the cinematic precision of contemporary storytelling. In the rehearsal room, I build spaces defined by communication, psychological safety, and artistic rigor. Actors know exactly where they stand. Designers feel invited to play. Writers feel protected and empowered as their work evolves.

As a choreographer, I weave physical vocabulary that feels lived-in, emotionally intelligent, and rooted in character. My movement direction has shaped everything from large-scale musicals to intimate youth-devised pieces, immersive experiences, and hybrid performances that refuse to sit quietly in one genre.

As a writer, I craft new works steeped in San Francisco's queer lineage, the humor and trauma of growing up, and the mythmaking instinct of communities fighting to be seen. My scripts explore identity, place, lineage, and the strange, electric theater of being alive.

I'm a Bay Area artist with national reach, ready for institution-level rooms, professional ensembles, and the new-works pipeline shaping contemporary American theater. If you're dreaming up a project or building something new, reach out. Let's talk theatre.

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