"Pohja and company pull together a strong sense of brotherhood in the immensity of the space. Pohja keeps the production elements to a minimum in a presentation that focuses squarely on the human element of a strikingly tragic point in history."
Russ Bickerstaff - Shepard Express
ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 | Vanguard Productions | December 2024
ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914
dir. Josh Pohja
Lighting by AntiShadows
Photography by Ross Zentner
Vanguard Productions
ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914
dir. Josh Pohja
Lighting by AntiShadows
Photography by Ross Zentner
Vanguard Productions
ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914
dir. Josh Pohja
Lighting by AntiShadows
Photography by Ross Zentner
Vanguard Productions
ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914
dir. Josh Pohja
Lighting by AntiShadows
Photography by Ross Zentner
Vanguard Productions
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE | VANGUARD PRODUCTIONS | 2024
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
Maya Danks as Rachel Corrie
Photography by Jake Badovski
dir. Josh Pohja
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
Maya Danks as Rachel Corrie
Photography by Jake Badovski
dir. Josh Pohja
ANTIGONE | VANGUARD PRODUCTIONS | 2024
ANTIGONE | 2024
Chantae Miller as Antigone
dir. Josh Pohja
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE | FIRST STAGE YOUNG COMPANY | 2024
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
dir. Josh Pohja
Photography by Paul Ruffalo
Lighting by Shane O'Neil
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
dir. Josh Pohja
Photography by Paul Ruffalo
Lighting by Shane O'Neil
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
John Eash-Scott as Dr. Stockmann
dir. Josh Pohja
Photography by Paul Ruffalo
Lighting by Shane O'Neil
"Directed by Joshua Pohja, the concerns of a small town are staged with unflinching immediacy....Pohja has a sharp sense of the tension in Miller’s script, which is based on Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 drama En folkefiende."
Russ Bickerstaff - Shepard Express
HAMLET | FIRST STAGE COMPANY CLASS | 2024
HAMLET (2024)
dir. Josh Pohja
HAMLET (2024)
Alice Rivera as Hamlet
dir. Josh Pohja
Hamlet
dir. Josh Pohja
"Pohja’s blocking…make the play feel lyrical and appropriately deterministic. embodying it with a tragic beauty…and does nothing to dampen the considerable impact of the play’s tragically elegant ending. I’ve seen many great things at First Stage, but this represents a new height in sophistication."
- Lawrence Riordan - Around The Town Chicago
The Skin of Our Teeth - First Stage Young Company
The Skin of Our Teeth
First Stage Young Company
dir. Josh Pohja
The Skin of Our Teeth
First Stage Young Company
dir. Josh Pohja
