Joel Fink
Encyclopedia
Joel G. Fink is an actor
, director
, acting
coach and theatre
administrator. He is currently 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
for 14 years.
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
, all in Chicago.
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 many university and regional productions, including Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
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
and Titus Andronicus
.
's Professional Theatre Training Program, Purdue University
's Professional Training program, California State University
, The New York School for Social Research, Circle in the Square Theatre School
, Hunter College
and the University of Colorado at Boulder
, where he was head of the Acting program for ten years. Fink was featured in performlink's online transcription of a 2005 group interview, Advice for the College Audition, along with directors of several midwestern college theatre programs.
and An Unkindness of Ravens
. "Robert Woodruff's Circus Production, 1983" was featured in Robert S. Miola's A Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays. Fink's article Too, Too Solid Flesh: Massage Therapy as an Effective Intervention in Actor-Training and Performance was featured in Theatre Topics, a journal of the Johns Hopkins University
Press in 1991.
Fink's production of Ancient Boys was described in Gene A. Plunka's Jean-Claude van Itallie and the off-broadway theater (1990).
Fink is quoted in Jim Volk's The Back Stage guide to working in regional theater: jobs for actors and other Theatre Professionals. (2007)
, and the American Massage Therapy Association, and is a certified massage therapist from The Swedish Institute
in New York City
.
, an MFA from New York University
School of the Arts, and a Doctor of Arts
from New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, acting
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....
coach and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
administrator. He is currently a Professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of Theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
for the Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts
Chicago College of Performing Arts
Chicago College of Performing Arts is a performing arts college that is housed at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. The college has two divisions: the Music Conservatory and the Theatre Conservatory.- History :...
at Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University is a coeducational, private university with campuses in Chicago, Illinois and Schaumburg, Illinois. Founded in 1945, the university is named in honor of both former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The university's curriculum is based on...
in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, 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
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a Shakespeare Festival each summer at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the outdoor Mary Rippon Theater and indoor University Theatre. The Mary Rippon Theater hosted an annual summer Shakespeare play starting in 1944. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival...
for 14 years.
Actor/Director
Fink has worked at The Barter TheatreBarter Theatre
Barter Theatre, located in Abingdon, Virginia, opened on June 10, 1933. It is one of the longest running professional theatres in the nation. In 1933, when the country was in the middle of the Great Depression, most patrons were not able to pay the full ticket price...
of Virginia, Center Stage Theatre of Baltimore, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival
Illinois Shakespeare Festival
The Illinois Shakespeare Festival is located in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. It began in 1978 and it celebrated its 30th season in the summer of 2007...
, Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a Shakespeare Festival each summer at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the outdoor Mary Rippon Theater and indoor University Theatre. The Mary Rippon Theater hosted an annual summer Shakespeare play starting in 1944. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival...
, The Mark Taper Forum
Mark Taper Forum
The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...
of Los Angeles, Organic Touchstone, Bailiwick Theatre, and The Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago Humanities Festival
The Chicago Humanities Festival is a foundation which organizes an annual series of lectures, concerts, and films in Chicago. The main festival takes place in the first and second weeks of November. The festival was started in 1990 by the Illinois Humanities Council and became an independent...
, all in Chicago.
As an actor, Fink appeared in the Chicago premiere of David Hare
David Hare (playwright)
Sir David Hare is an English playwright and theatre and film director.-Early life:Hare was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, the son of Agnes and Clifford Hare, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing, an independent school in West Sussex, and at Jesus College, Cambridge...
's Racing Demon
Racing Demon (play)
Racing Demon is a 1990 play by English playwright David Hare. Part of a trio of plays about British institutions, it focuses on the Church of England, and tackles issues such as gay ordination, and the role of evangelism in inner-city communities...
at the Organic/Touchstone Theatre and in Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
, The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is one of only two of Shakespeare's...
and As You Like It
As You Like It
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
Fink has directed many university and regional productions, including Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was classified as comedy, but its mood defies those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labelled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays...
at Roosevelt University. For CSF, he directed A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
, Twelfth Night, Pericles
Pericles
Pericles was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars...
(2005), The Rivals, The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
, Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
and Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were...
.
Teaching
He has taught at New York UniversityNew York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
's Professional Theatre Training Program, Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
's Professional Training program, California State University
California State University
The California State University is a public university system in the state of California. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the...
, The New York School for Social Research, Circle in the Square Theatre School
Circle in the Square Theatre School
Circle in the Square Theatre School is a non-profit, tax exempt drama school associated with the Circle in the Square Theatre and as such is the only accredited school attached to a Broadway theatre....
, Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
and the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
, where he was head of the Acting program for ten years. Fink was featured in performlink's online transcription of a 2005 group interview, Advice for the College Audition, along with directors of several midwestern college theatre programs.
Publications
Fink has published numerous articles, chapters, and reviews, as well as original and adapted plays, including The RivalsThe Rivals
The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :...
and An Unkindness of Ravens
An Unkindness of Ravens
An Unkindness of Ravens is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1985, and features her popular protagonist Inspector Wexford, and is the 13th entry in the series...
. "Robert Woodruff's Circus Production, 1983" was featured in Robert S. Miola's A Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays. Fink's article Too, Too Solid Flesh: Massage Therapy as an Effective Intervention in Actor-Training and Performance was featured in Theatre Topics, a journal of the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
Press in 1991.
Fink's production of Ancient Boys was described in Gene A. Plunka's Jean-Claude van Itallie and the off-broadway theater (1990).
Fink is quoted in Jim Volk's The Back Stage guide to working in regional theater: jobs for actors and other Theatre Professionals. (2007)
Affiliations
Fink is a member of Actor's Equity Association and The American Federation of Film and Television Artists, as well as the International Jugglers' AssociationInternational Jugglers' Association
The International Jugglers' Association or IJA is the oldest and largest organization of jugglers. It is open to members worldwide.-Benefits of Membership:* Special from major prop vendors worldwide.* Member prices in the IJA’s ....
, and the American Massage Therapy Association, and is a certified massage therapist from The Swedish Institute
Swedish Institute
The Swedish Institute is a Swedish government agency with the responsibility to spread information about Sweden outside of Sweden. It exists to promote Swedish interests, and to organise exchanges with other countries in different areas of public life, in particular in the spheres of culture,...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Education
Fink holds a a BFA from The Art Institute of ChicagoArt Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
, an MFA from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
School of the Arts, and a Doctor of Arts
Doctor of Arts
The Doctor of Arts is a discipline-based terminal doctoral degree that was originally conceived and designed to be an alternative to the traditional research-based Doctor of Philosophy and the education-based Doctor of Education . Like other doctorates, the D.A. is an academic degree of the...
from New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.