Joe Calarco

Joe Calarco is a multiple award-winning director, playwright and dramaturg whose Off-Broadway credits include productions at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Second Stage, The Lucille Lortel, The Transport Group, Dreamlight Theatre Company and The New York Musical Theatre Festival.

He is the adaptor/director of Shakespeare’s R&J, which ran for a year Off-Broadway and earned him a Lucille Lortel Award. He also directed the play’s premieres in Chicago, D.C., London and Tokyo, garnering multiple awards along the way. 

He has directed national tours, world premieres and many award-winning productions at regional theatres across the country including at the Tony Award winning Signature Theatre.

As a writer his published works include Shakespeare’s R&J, In The Absence of Spring, and Walter Cronkite is Dead. His new play, Winter Break was published by Dramatists Play Service earlier this year.