Joel Fink

Joel G. Fink is an actor, director, acting coach and theatre administrator. He is a Professor of Theatre for the Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he also served as Associate Dean and Founding Director of the conservatory. Fink also served as the Casting Director/Artistic Associate of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival from 1988 until 2003. Fink holds a doctorate and an MFA from New York University. He holds a BFA from the Goodman School of Drama.

Fink has worked at the Barter Theatre of Virginia, Center Stage Theatre of Baltimore, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum of Los Angeles, Organic Touchstone, Bailiwick Theatre, and the Chicago Humanities Festival, among other theatres.

As an actor, Fink appeared in the Chicago premiere of David Hare's Racing Demon at the Organic/Touchstone Theatre and in Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors and As You Like It for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Fink has directed and acted in over 100 productions in university and regional productions across the country, including the world premiere of Jean-Claude Van Italie's Ancient Boys, at the University of Colorado, and of his own setting of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, An Unkindness of Ravens, at Roosevelt University. For CSF, he directed A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Pericles (2005), The Rivals, The Importance of Being Earnest, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, and Titus Andronicus.

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