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JOSH POHJA (he/him) is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama during the residency of the Moscow Art Theatre; Anatoly Smeliansky, Andrei Șerban, Natalia Fedorova, as well as Bulgarian director Mladen Kiselov, Ibsen Scholar Brian Johnston, Victoria Santa Cruz, Gregory Lehane, Don Marinelli, and Don Wadsworth. These scholars and teachers shaped his love for re-imagining classical theatre. Josh is also a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and alumni of the Saratoga International Theatre Institute (SITI) at Skidmore College under the guidance of Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. He is co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Vanguard Productions. JP most recently helmed Vanguard's annual production of All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and Antigone at The Calvary starring Gregory Linington and Chantae Miller, and staged readings of Hamlet and Endgame. Other professional credits include assistant directing Molly Rhode in the critically acclaimed Milwaukee Chamber Theatre production of Great Expectations. Also at Chamber Theatre, Pohja also co-produced and directed for the 2023 Young Playwright’s Festival. Other directing credits include Hamlet, An Enemy of the People, The Skin of Our Teeth, Antigone, Blue Stockings, Much Ado About Nothing and Julius Caesar for First Stage Young Company and Summer Academy. Golden Child, She Kills Monsters, No Child and Much Ado About Nothing for Pius XI. JP also served five years as Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Education Programs Coordinator and Basic Acting I-III teacher. As an actor Pohja has performed nationally with, most notably, The Guthrie Theater (A Midsummer Night’s Dream; dir. Joe Dowling), The Acting Company (Richard III dir. Eve Shapiro), Old Globe (The Full Monty dir. Jack O’ Brien), Alley Theatre (A Christmas Carol; dir. Stephen Rayne), Judson Church, HERE Arts Center and NYC Fringe Festival.
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Director | Writer | Producer | Teaching Artist
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