JOE ISENBERG
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​​Helen Hayes Recipient 2013 for 
Outstanding Choreography on 

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Helen Hayes Award Nomination 2018 for 
Outstanding Choreography in 

Watch on the Rhine

Helen Hayes Award Nomination 2015

for Outstanding Choreography in
The Totalitarians


Helen Hayes Award Nomination 2015
for Outstanding Fight Choreography in
We Are Proud To Present...

 
Outstanding Swashbuckler Award 2010 
​
Society of American Fight Directors 





Kennedy Center/Kenan Fund for the Arts Fight Choreographer-in-Residence 2010-2011 season
The Kennedy Center/Kenan Fund Performing Artists-in-Residence Program is a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, whose mission is to incubate projects that sustain artists at every point in their creative development through strategic partnerships that capitalize on visionary thinking in the arts. Additional support is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.



Productions:


The Metropolitan Opera
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay:Dir-Bartlett Sher
Macbeth:
Dir-Adrian Noble
Hamlet:Dir-
Neil Armfield
Don Giovanni: Dir-Ivo van Hove
Il Trovatore: (Remount) Dir-Paula Williams
​
 

​Washington National Opera

The Ring Of The Nibelung:Dir-Francesca Zambello
The Rhinegold:Senior Ass. Dir-Christian Rath, Ass Dir-Laurie Feldman
The Valkyrie:Senior Ass. Dir-Christian Rath, Ass Dir-Laurie Feldman
Siegfried:Senior Ass. Dir-Christian Rath, Ass Dir-Laurie Feldman
Twilight Of the Gods:Senior Ass. Dir-Christian Rath, Ass Dir-Laurie Feldman


Faust:Dir- Garnett Bruce
Silent Night:Dir- Tomer Zvulun
Champion:Dir-James Robinson
Dead Man Walking:Dir-Francesca Zambello
The Force Of Destiny:Dir-Francesca Zambello
La boheme:Dir-Peter Kazaras
An American Solder:Dir-David Paul
Tristan And Isolde:Dir-Neil Armfield
ShowBoat:Dir-
Francesca Zambello

Approaching Ali:Dir-Nicole Watson

Glimmerglass Festival 
Silent Night:Dir-Tomer Zvulun   
Porgy And Bess:Dir-Francesca Zambello
​Oklahoma:Dir-Molly Smith

Fort Worth Opera
Porgy And Bess:Dir-Garnett Bruce 

New York City Opera
Brokeback Mountain:Dir-Jacopo Spirei 
Dolores Claiborne:
Dir-Micheal Capasso

Bard SummerScape
Iris:Dir-James Farrah


Arena Stage
The Great Society:Dir-Kyle Donnelly
At Home At The Zoo:Dir-Mary Robinson
Every Tongue Confess:Dir-Kenny Leon
The Little Foxes:Dir-Kyle Donnelly

Watch On The Rhine:Dir-Jackie Maxwell

​Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Woman Laughing Alone With Salad:Dir-Kip Fagan
Cherokee:Dir-John Vreeke

The Totalitarians:Dir-Robert O'Hara
Appropriate:Dir-Liesl Tommy
We Are Proud To Present...:Dir-Michael Garces
The Convert:Dir-Michael Garces
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity:Dir-John Vreeke
Civilization:Dir-Howard Shalwitz
A Bright New Boise:Dir-John Vreeke
Detroit:Dir-John Vreeke


Signature Theatre
God Of Carnage:Dir-Joe Calarco


Kennedy Center/Theatre For Young Audiences
The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg:Dir-Gregg Henry

​Children's Theatre Company
The Hobbit:Dir-Greg Banks 
 

​Adirondack Theater Festival
Dial M For Murder:Dir-Marcus Kyd 


Park Square Theatre
Anne Frank:Dir-Ellen Fenster

RoundHouse Theatre
Beauty Queen of Leenan:Dir-Jeremy Skidmore
The Lyons:Dir-John Vreeke

Humana Festival 2012
Michael Von Siebenburg Melting Through the Floorboards:Dir-Kip Fagan

Humana Festival 2011
The End:Dir-Amy Attaway/Michael Legg
A Devil At Noon:Dir-Steve Cosson

Florida Stage
Cane:Dir-Louis Tyrrell

No Rules Theatre Com.
Assembly Required:Dir-Isaac Klein

The Studio Theatre 2nd Stage
Songs of The Dragons Flying To Heaven:Dir-Natsu Onada Power
Mojo:Dir-Christopher Gallu

Studio Theatre
Laugh:Dir-David Schweizer
Choir Boy:Dir-Kent Gash
Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet:Dir-Timothy Douglas
Venus In Fur:Dir-David Muse

Theatre J
Our Class:Dir-Derek Goldman

InterAct Theatre Co.
Lidless:Dir-Seth Rozin

Asst. Fight Director:

Metropolitan Opera
Romeo and Juliet:Fight Chor-Dale Girard

Actors Theatre Louisville
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity:Fight Chor-Al Snow

Alabama Shakespeare Festival
The Three Musketeers:Fight Chor-Dale Girard

Folger Theatre
Cyrano:Fight Chor-Dale Girard

Teaching: 
Middlebury College-Master Classes
Union College-Master Classes

52nd Street Project: 2017 Stage Combat Spring Class
Georgetown University-Hamlet:Dir-Derek Goldman, Master Classes

Howard University-Hurt Village:Dir-Eric Ruffin, Not About Nightingales:Dir-Eric Ruffin
University of North Carolina School of the Arts-Summer Session 2010,
The Duke Ellington School of the Arts-Master Classes.



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