STAGE MANAGING

Justin has over twenty years of experience stage managing plays and musicals on and off Broadway and around the country. As a freelance stage manager, he also regularly works on various corporate events, meetings, conferences, festivals, charity galas, award shows, concerts, staged readings, workshops, and developmental labs of new plays and musicals.

Justin is currently the Production Stage Manager of the critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of Parade, starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond and directed by Michael Arden. Earlier this year, he served as Production Stage Manager and Associate Director of Arden’s dazzling new Broadway production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (with the inimitable Jefferson Mays) and Production Stage Manager of the critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of Into the Woods. Justin was also Production Stage Manager of the Tony-Award-winning revival of Once On This Island (for which he also served as Associate Director for its National Tour) and the long-running, crowd-pleasing Rock of Ages. Other Broadway stage managing credits include The Crucible, God of Carnage, The American Plan, A Chorus Line, RENT, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Lennon, Pacific Overtures, Jumpers, Little Shop of Horrors, Nine, and the smash-hit Skittles: The Musical. National Tours: Phantom of the Opera and Love Letters. Off-Broadway and Beyond: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe with Cecily Strong (The Shed & Mark Taper Forum), Space Dogs (MCC), Faith Salie’s Approval Junkie (Audible Theater), Letters to Suresh (Second Stage), Make Believe (Second Stage), #DateMe (Westside Theatre), The Laramie Project Cycle (Tectonic Theatre Company original cast, BAM), Alphabetical Order (Keen Company), A Contemporary American’s Guide to a Successful Marriage (Soho Playhouse & NYCFringe), Chicken (Studio Dante), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Zipper), Zanna, Don’t! (John Houseman), Valhalla (New York Theatre Workshop), Polish Joke (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Butter and Egg Man (Atlantic Theatre Company), Class Mothers ’68 (Clurman). Regional: ALIEN/NATION (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Maybe Happy Ending (Alliance Theatre), The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Old Globe Theatre), Bill Bowers’ It Goes Without Saying (Adirondack Theatre Festival), The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Ragtime (North Carolina Theatre), Company (Kennedy Center Sondheim Festival).

TEACHING

Justin is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, where he teaches Advanced Stage Management Methodologies to M.F.A. Stage Managers. Justin was an Associate Professor of Stage Management at CUNY–BMCC from 2013-2016 and an Adjunct Professor and Advisor at Fordham University in 2019. In addition, he has had the honor to guest lecture at Yale University, Howard University, James Madison University, University of California - San Diego, Ithaca College, Drew University, Florida State University, Emerson College, Pace University, Miami University, SUNY-Purchase, Carnegie Mellon University, Connecticut College, Adelphi University, City College - CUNY, Barnard College, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where he earned a B.F.A. in Theatre, with a concentration in Stage Management and Technical Production.

SELF-CARE

As a passionate advocate for mental health and emotional well-being, Justin has partnered with his dear friend Gracy Obuchowicz to offer educational workshops and community-building trainings for stage managers to deepen their understanding of self-care. Their first webinar, Authentic Self-Care for Stage Managers, was hosted by Year of the Stage Manager 2020/21 and the Stage Managers' Association. They co-facilitated a session together at the 2022 Broadway Stage Management Symposium. Click here to read more about their work.

WRITING

Justin’s first collection of poetry and short stories, every grain of sand, was published in November 2020. He also chronicled his publishing process in an eight-part blog series, which you can read here.

Justin’s short plays include  john/paul (developed with Lynx Ensemble Theatre), Commuters Muted (At Hand Theatre Company’s POP! Festival), and Saeedeh & Nasha (currently in development). He co-wrote the musical A Host of Sparrows with writer Sarita Louise Rhodes and composer David Kreppel, which received a staged reading at Soho Playhouse, starring Saycon Sengbloh, LeRoy McClain, Michael Potts, Brenda Pressley, Nikiya Mathis, Nate Stampley, Yusef Miller, and the great Marva Hicks.

DEVISING

Justin is the Producing Director of The Forest of Arden, a diverse company of multi-disciplinary artists devising immersive theatrical experiences with an emphasis on site-specific work and innovative technologies, while serving local communities. Their first experiment, American Dream Study, was devised in Philmont, NY in June 2020. Building on the success of that project, The Forest of Arden devised Alien/Nation, a two-part immersive theatrical experience in 21 different outdoor locations throughout the Williams College campus as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival season in July-August 2021. Justin served as one of the Associate Directors on the large-scale collaborative project, as well as the Production Stage Manager.

PRODUCING

From 2008-2013, Justin served as the Executive Director of At Hand Theatre Company, a green non-profit devoted to developing and producing new plays. With At Hand, Justin produced 7 world premiere productions, 2 new short play festivals, 3 concerts, and 27 readings and workshops of works-in-development.

Justin also co-produced the 2014 world premiere of Anton Dudley and Stephanie DiMaggio’s 17 Orchard Point off-Broadway at Theatre Row, starring Michele Pawk.