Josh Pohja || Director's Portfolio

"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

"Josh Pohja's direction effectively erases the barriers between soldiers and instead highlights their identities as fellow men."


Kimberley Laberge - Stage on a Page

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

"Danks' performance, directed by Josh Pohja, is virtually seamless. As a human being, the activist was an unfinished work in progress, but Danks helps us remember her vitality and decency."


Jim Higgins - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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

The Skin of Our Teeth

First Stage Young Company

dir. Josh Pohja


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