TiQ’s new Phantom of the Opera adaptation is officially available to watch for free! “Equal parts thrilling, chilling, and incisive.” - The NYTimes
We are honored that TiQ’s Complete Archive was acquired by the Library of Congress, and remains free and available to view anytime on our YouTube Channel, where it continues to be updated with new projects and experiments.
Orion Johnstone, Jeremy Mage and I have officially released the live concert recording of Hail Oblivion featuring some incredible performances by Ato Blankson-Wood, Bryce Pinkham, Rick Burkhardt, Amber Gray and more! Listen at our bandcamp now!
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Joshua William Gelb is an Obie and Drama League Award winning multi-hyphenate theater maker whose various hats include director, performer, creative technologist, producer, designer, and librettist. From devised physical theater, to stylized adaptations of classics, to original musicals and collaborations with emerging playwrights Gelb’s direction merges the theatrical and cinematic, featuring striking integrations of technology, music, movement, clowning, and dance.
During the Covid shut-down, Gelb founded Theater in Quarantine, a performance laboratory dedicated to the exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space. TiQ developed and live-streamed dozens of visually distinctive, original works to its YouTube channel, working out of a closet in the East Village measuring only 8 sq feet and reaching audiences around the globe. Theater in Quarantine has been presented by NYU Skirball, La Mama, CultureHub, Theater Mitu, New Georges, The Invisible Dog Art Center, A2SF, and Cultural DC. Theater in Quarantine has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, Japan's NHK Television, and has been profiled in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Within a single year Theater in Quarantine has been a four-time New York Times Critic's Pick as well as one of Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020” and the New York Times' "Best Theater of 2021."
Once theaters reopened Gelb premiered TiQ’s “live & in-person” hybrid format at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and continues to create work for both remote and in-person audiences, including Phantom of the Opera and Nosferatu: A 3D Symphony of Horror, both commissioned and presented by NYU Skirball, and the re-envisioned The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy, co-created with Sinking Ship Productions and presented at the Under the Radar Festival in a co-pro with NYTW and Lucille Lortel Theater. Gelb’s HERE Arts Center HARP residency recently culminated in the premiere of Untitled Miniature, a durational hybrid performance staged inside a box measuring just 36” by 19.5”.
Prior to the pandemic Gelb created a musical interrogation of the 1927 Al Jolson film Jazz Singer (New Yorker critic’s pick) which was commissioned and built in residence at Abrons Arts Center with Nehemiah Luckett. Previously in residence at Abrons, Gelb conceived and directed the sesquicentennial anniversary reimagining of America’s supposed first musical The Black Crook (NYT Critic’s Pick), about which he lectured at Harvard University's Houghton Library. His adaptation of Kafka's A Hunger Artist, developed with Sinking Ship Productions continues to tour. Other productions include Bear Slayer (Ars Nova), Party in the USA, Clara Not Clara: A Nutcracker, Sometimes in Prague, Blind Alley Guy: Notes for an Unfinished Play by Eugene O’Neil. Gelb received his BFA at NYU Tisch’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School and his MFA in directing at Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama where he graduated as a John Wells Fellow. He has assisted Marianne Weems (The Builders Association) and Rebecca Taichman (Soho Rep), was the Associate Director of Pig Pen’s Phantom Folktales (Virgin Cruise Line), and was a member of the 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Gelb is currently a HERE Arts Center HARP resident artist.
As a performer Gelb has appeared in the majority of Theater in Quarantine’s output as well as Little Lord’s Professional Development, The Peanut Butter Show (NYTW Nextdoor), BambiFucker/Kaffeehaus (The Brick) and Pocahontas and/or America (Bushwick Starr). Also, How to Hamlet (Theater Reconstruction Ensemble), Memory Retrograde (Haruna Lee), Empire Travel Agency (Woodshed Collective), She is King (Dixon Place/Other Forces Festival/Boom Arts), Jim Nue’s The Floatones (La Mama/Dixon Place), Thanksgiving! A! Pageant! (Ars Nova) as well as his own productions of Bear Slayer, Dukus, Blind Alley Guy, and Party in the USA.
For Video Work Samples, you can check out Theater in Quarantine’s YouTube Channel or my Vimeo Page.