Biography
Josh Glenn-Kayden (he/him) is a Boston based director and the Artistic Producer and Casting Director at Company One Theatre. Josh's work centers around new plays that help us dream our culture forward and imagine ways to create a more just world together.
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Recent directing projects include Shrike by Erin Lerch (Fresh Ink Theatre), Wild Flowers by Tatiana Isabel Gil (Company One Better Future series), Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theatre for Social Justice Movements (consisting of new plays by Phaedra Michelle Scott, M Sloth Levine, and Jaymes Sanchez) at UMass Amherst, Baltimore by Kirsten Greenidge (UMass Amherst), workshops of Walden by Amy Berryman and The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine (UMass Play Lab), Greater Good by Kirsten Greenidge (A.R.T. & Company One world premiere, associate director), the world premiere of This Place/Displaced (Artists’ Theater of Boston, ArtsFuse Best Stage Productions of 2018), the New England premiere of Nicky Silver’s The Lyons (Titanic Theatre), and the world premiere of Laura Neill’s Don’t Give Up the Ship (Fresh Ink Theatre). Josh is also the director and co-producer of The Legion Tapes, a sci-fi podcast written by Erin Lerch.
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Josh has directed and developed new work for the A.R.T., Company One Theatre, Fresh Ink Theatre, Flat Earth Theatre, Artists’ Theater of Boston, the Museum of Science, UMass Amherst, Hub Theatre, the One Minute Play Festival, and TC Squared Theatre Company, among others. Josh has worked with playwrights including Kirsten Greenidge, Amy Berryman, M Sloth Levine, Laura Neill, Jaymes Sanchez, Phaedra Michelle Scott, David Valdes, Jeni Mahoney, Erin Lerch, and more.
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Josh holds a BA in Drama from Tufts University and an MFA in Directing from UMass Amherst.
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