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Professional Credits

A selection of production-centric credits, including:

Direction, Technical Direction, Writing, and Instruction.

Director

Seussical The Musical!

The Charter School of Educational Excellence, April 2025

Director

Mean Girls The Musical

CAST, August 2024

Director

Godspell

The Charter School of Educational Excellence, April 2024

Director

Diverse Voices

Actors Conservatory Theater, September 2023 

Director

Firebringer

CAST, August 2023

Director & Playwright

It's Hell Out There, Live

Westchester Community College, November 2022

Director

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

CAST, August 2022

Director

Vintage Hitchcock

Westchester Community College, March 2022

Director

Laundry and Bourbon

Westchester Community College, July 2021

Director & Playwright

What Even is Life?

Westchester Community College, March 2021

Director & Playwright

It's Hell Out There, Virtual

Croton Academy of Arts, December 2020

Director & Playwright

It's Hell Out There, Virtual

Westchester Community College, November 2020

Technical Director

Clue!

Highland Falls Central School District, November 2020

Director

She Kills Monsters

Croton Academy of Arts, August 2020

Director & Writing Instructor

Harmful Untruths

Croton Academy of Arts, December 2019

Technical Director

Much Ado About Nothing

Lawnchair Theater Company, July 2019

Director & Writing Instructor

The Bingo Paradox

Croton Academy of Arts, June 2019

Sound Designer

The Tempest

Lawnchair Theater Company, July 2018

Director

Buddy

Croton Academy of Arts, May 2018

Director & Writing Instructor

Unexpectations

Croton Academy of Arts, March 2018

Director & Writing Instructor

Dogmatic

Croton Academy of Arts, June 2017

Director & Writing Instructor

The Pale Blue Dot

Croton Academy of Arts, June 2016

Director, Author, & Actor

Good Sense of Tumor

DNL Productions, April 2016

Director & Writing Instructor

Anthropology

Croton Academy of Arts, December 2015

Director & Writing Instructor

String Theory

Croton Academy of Arts, June 2015

Assistant to the Director

Department of Housing Urban Development Advertising Campaign

Fluid Content, April 2014

Assistant to the Director & Staff Writer

Escape Zombeing Island

Phathom, August 2013

Assistant to the Director & Staff Writer

Zombeing Fallout Shelter - A Live Theatrical Experience

Phathom, July 2013

Assistant to the Director & Staff Writer

Zombeing Wedding Invades Chicago - A Live Theatrical Experience

Phathom, June 2013

Directing Intern

Twelfth Night

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, July 2008

Directing Intern

Cymbeline

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, June 2008

Education

MA Theater Instruction

Temple University

BFA, Television Writing and Production

Columbia College Chicago

iO Training Center

Graduated from the premier educational center for long-form improvisation, founded by the art form's creator, Del Close.

Additional Credits

● Years of professional performance as a long-form improviser at such venues as The iO Theater, The Second City, and The Annoyance Theater.
● Many acting credits across stage and screen.

Additional Skills

● Longform Improvisation

● Set Design

● Theatrical Acoustic Design

● Theatrical Lighting Design

Writing

Lesson Planning

Curriculum Writing

Puppetry

● Puppet Crafting

Properties Crafting

● Carpentry

● Video Editing

Graphic Design

Accomplishments

● Established the Charter School of Educational Excellence's first Musical Theater program.

● Created the first Playwrighting Curriculum for Curtain Call Theater's Summer Creative Theater Intensive.
●  First student to complete Temple University's Theater Instruction Master's Program.
● Writer of multiple plays with production history at various theaters.
● Formed the first all-teen sketch writing, performance, and improv team to be invited to participate in the prestigious Del Close Marathon.
● Interviewed for over a year by Kurt Anderson on NPR's Studio 360  for my work on the autobiographical web series A Good Sense of Tumor.
● Published in the peer-reviewed scholarly periodical, The Watercooler Journal.

©2025 by Joseph Riedel.

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