JOE DEER

Joe Deer is an award-winning director and choreographer of more than 200 plays and musicals in settings from off-Broadway to London and Milan, regional theatres to university stages. He was artistic director of NYC Tapworks, Summer Stage Wright, and Struthers Library Theatre, and a frequent returning director at Mountain Playhouse, West Virginia Public Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma and The Human Race Theatre Co. (where he is proudly a resident artist). 

Some of his favorite recent productions include BOS LASSOS (Matera, Italy), GUYS AND DOLLS (Milan, Italy), SOUTH PACIFIC (Dayton Opera) and many productions at The Human Race Theatre Co. For more than a decade, Joe has been the staff Stage Director for Dayton's award-winning Muse Machine musical. He directed regional and university premieres of works by Jason Robert Brown and Ricky Ian Gordon.