The Official Site for Multi-Award-Winning Actor, Graphic Designer, and Stage Combat Artist
Joseph Urick
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JOSEPH URICK is an award-winning actor based in Wichita, Kansas. He has been featured in the Frog & Peach’s Children’s Theatre Company in New York City, as well as performed at nationally and internationally, at such theatres as the ZACH Scott in Texas, Florida Shakespeare, the Hippodrome Theatre in Florida, as well as the Papagaou Theatre and Anagyius Theatre in Greece.
Joseph holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Florida, and is a Faculty Member at Wichita State University. He has worked in Kansas, Texas, New York, and Florida as an actor, director, fight choreographer, and producer. He has served on the Boards of Texas Light Opera and ARIA Creative Productions, and was one of their longest tenured Educators and Artists-in-Residence.
Joseph is also an award-winning Graphics Designer, and has produced designs for Colleges, Universities, Regional Theatres, Actors, and Films for over ten years. His graphics have received awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and have been featured Off-Broadway at Theatre for the New City, New Haarlem Arts Theatre, and Frog & Peach Theatre Company. His designs for film include the documentary Theatre of Rice and Beans.
As a Stage Combat Combatant, Joseph has been invited to teach Stage Combat for World Theatre Day Festival at Universidad Veracruzana, and has produced staged violence for over one-hundred shows around the United States. Joseph also used his experience with combat and self-defense with the San Antonio Police Department, acting in their Active Shooter Safety Video “Run, Hide, Fight!,” as well as their Domestic Violence Awareness Training Program.
For his play, Casa de Amor, Joseph won the David Shelton Playwright Award and was nominated for the Mark Twain Award for Comedy through KC/ACTF Region VI. Joseph has adapted several classic plays as well, including Antigone, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Hamlet, and Edmond Rostand’s classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Joseph has produced several acclaimed productions around the United States, including ROOMS: a rock romance in Gainesville, Florida; the award winning, Southwest Regional Premier of Edgar Allan Poe’s NEVERMORE, Quills by Doug Wright, RACE by Dave Mamet, as well as an award-winning Regional Tour of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last 5 Years.