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An accomplished Broadway and Hollywood actor, Joshua is a proud member of Musical Theater Guild. Among his numerous acting. Read more..

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In the Fall of 2022 in Los Angeles and then in Prague in the Summer of 2023, Joshua is mounting his production of 3 short shows Careful What You Wish For : Including The Noon Witch, The Lake and remounting his Pick of the Fringe 2017 award winning production of The Wedding Night both composed by Game of Thrones and Film Orchestrator, Stephen Coleman. The Original Cast Recording of The Wedding Night is now available on CD Baby! Read more..

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Specializing in Classes and Private Coaching for actors

Joshua is also a renowned acting coach and teaches out of his private studio, the Creative Combustion Acting Studio in Studio City.Where he is Read more..

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“Joshua Finkel in role of Ed Kleban is mesmerizing. Finkel is the total embodiment of Kleban's energy and pain on stage—he took the full range of emotions let them out little by little in everything he did on stage, he’s a consummate actor. Vocally Finkel continues to astound—every song from “Light On My Feet” to “Self Portrait” is an exemplary illustration of dramatic singing.”
Ryan M. LuevanoTheater Critic and Musical Director

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“Joshua Finkel appeared in the original Broadway cast from its very first preview...Since Finkel covered the role of Molina ...a better choice could not have been made for MTG’s Molina. Finkel’s work on Monday night can only be described as virtuoso, the kind of multi-layered, deeply moving, virtually flawless performance one usually sees after months of rehearsals and performances. Disappearing entirely into Molina’s gaunt, flamboyant, tormented, proud, humiliated, defiant skin, Finkel acted and sang the hell out of the role, getting every possible laugh from Molina’s fabulousness and every possible tear from his poignancy.”
Steven StanleyTheater Critic, StageSceneLA.com

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“As the French candelabra Lumiére, Joshua Finkel nearly outshone (pun intended) all the other performers. Finkel led the show's most delightful musical sequence, the can-can-like "Be Our Guest," featuring a boutique of high-kicking animated kitchen utensil.”
Cary GinellTheatre Critic, The Acorn and VC Onstage

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“"Joshua Finkel plays Audrey's boyfriend, a motorcycle riding, nitrous-oxide huffing "professional' intent on bringing pain to everyone he come across. Finkel's performance is both hilarious and disturbing, satisfying the audience's need to hate the odious and laugh at the absurd."”
DAVE EISENSTADTERTheater Critic, , The Monadnock Sentinel Transcrip5

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“"It's nothing short of breathtaking, especially as performed by the talented Joshua Finkel. Finkel comes out in a toga worn by Curtis in Spartacus and sings Sondheim's "Lovely" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Finkel has a lot of fun as, bare-chested, he struts about a la Hercules, flexing his muscles to the delight of ladies in the audience. Finkel also has a field day with his The Flintstones costume in leopard as well as one worn by Arnold S. in the remake of Around the World in Eighty Days. Other of his musical highlights include: "The Impossible Dream", "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" and a lyric change for the show's opener and closer to the song "That's Entertainment."”
Don GrigwareTheater Critic, Broadway World and Grigware Talks Theatre

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UPCOMING SUMMER PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS CHECK OUT THESE UPCOMING EVENTS BY CLICKING ON EACH PICTURE! SATURDAY, JULY 22 FROM 9AM-11AM Joshua is teaching his famous SINGING IN DIFFERENT GENRES AND STYLES MASTER CLASS to the talented students enrolled at the CSSSA Cal Arts Summer Session 2023. This class gives students the information and technique on how to easily switch their sound and style between the 4 main genres of Musical Theatre Scores: Legit, Jazz, Rock/Pop, and Country. Monday, July 24, 2023 at 6pm, Wilshire Ebell Theatre Joshua is performing at Milt Larsen's Celebration of Life, recreating moments from his leading role of Lew Fields from Pazzazz!, the musical about the Vaudeville Team Weber and Fields, written by Milt Larsen and Richard M. Sherman. It will be wonderful to honor and remember the amazing and talented Milt Larsen along with other members of the cast, Musical Director Richard Allen, as well as the legendary composer Richard M. Sherman. Thursday August 3, 2023 7pm BROADWAY SHOWSTOPPERS AT COACHELLA VALLEY REP . Joshua will be joining Glenn Rosenblum and Alix Korey at Coachella Valley Repertory Theatre in Palm Springs for BROADWAY SHOWSTOPPERS. www.cvrep.org THURSDAY AUGUST 10TH AT 2:30PM HOLLYWOOD REVISITED IS GRATEFUL TO BE RETURNING FOR OUR 3RD TIME AT THE GORGEOUS MARAVILLA SENIOR LIVING COMPLEX IN MAGNIFICENT, SANTA BARBARA, CA CLICK BELOW FOR INFO / DIRECTIONS TO MARAVILLA MARAVILLA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2023 7PM RETURNING TO MORNINGSIDE OF FULLERTON APRIL 2024: MIDWEST TOUR! STAY TUNED FOR DATES AND VENUES! JOSHUA HAD A GREAT SEASON BEING THE NAME READER AT THE FOLLOWING COMMENCEMENTS IN SPRING 2023 WITH VOICE TALENT INTERNATIONAL APRIL 29: GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY AT ORACLE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO MAY 11: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER MAY 25 AND 26: CAL STATE LA JUNE 16 AND 17: UC-IRVINE JOSHUA WILL BE STARRING IN MUSICAL PROJECTS BY COMPOSER/WRITER WAYLAND PICKARD: E-LOVE, A NEW 2 PERSON MUSICAL AND AS GEORGE GERSHWIN IN HIS REMOUNTING OF THE GHOST OF GERSHWIN DECEMBER 20-21, 2022 JOSHUA WAS GIVEN AN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT THE LAW 2.0 CONFERENCE AND PARTICIPATED ON VARIOUS PANELS DURING THE LAW AND THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE. MANDALAY BAY HOTEL, LAS VEGAS, NV #DAYMADE JOSHUA IS INCREDIBLY HONORED WITH THIS RAVE REVIEW FROM WWW.STAGEANDCINEMA.COM BY TONY FRANKEL FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS THE COMEDIC VILLAIN BUD FRUMP IN HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING WITH MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD [/text-with-icon][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Director Bio

Joshua is mounting 3 short original musicals based on classic Czech ghost stories. Scheduled for a Fall Los Angeles Production called CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR : The Czech Musicals , the middle show is the remounting his Pick of the Fringe 2017 award winning production of The Wedding Night both composed by Game of Thrones and Film Orchestrator, Stephen Coleman. The trio of shows is then slated to play Prague in 2023. The Original Cast Recording of The Wedding Night is now available on CD Baby! Joshua is also developing a new musical based on Picasso with a wonderful creative team from Texas and New York. Joshua mounted the award winning hit production of DAMES AT SEA at the beautiful Sierra Madre Playhouse. Joshua is currently working with the creative team to develop the musical into a full length show featuring 3 new short musicals as well as a Broadway Bound Musical currently in development. Joshua made his NY directing debut when bringing the sold out cabaret act he co-created, directed and choreographed to Feinstein’s 54 Below: TOGETHER AT LAST starring Broadway teen performers Jaidyn Young and Emma Howard (The Beguiled with Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman, and Transparent.) We are scheduling further performances in NY and SF. In 2015, Joshua received rave reviews, Broadway World award noms., and a Best Director “Scenie” Award from Stage Scene LA for his Los Angeles County Premiere Production of VIOLET the Musical at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood produced Kelrik Productions. Also, Joshua directed acclaimed and VC award winning productions of THE FANTASTICKS as well as a brave new concept for the hysterical show A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM for Panic! Productions in Thousand Oaks. In Film, Joshua starred in and choreographed both seasons of the webisode series DATING IN THE MIDDLE AGES and additionally starred in the short film HUCKLEBERRY DREAMS opposite Emmy and Tony award winner Robert Morse.

Actor Bio

An accomplished Broadway and Hollywood actor, Joshua is a proud member of Musical Theater Guild. Among his numerous acting credits, Joshua starred on Broadway and in London as Molina in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN opposite Chita Rivera and Vanessa Williams (7 TONY Awards); then went on to win Scenie and Broadway World awards starring as Molina at the Alex Theater in Glendale and twice in India. Joshua received rave reviews as Thenardier ” the Master of the House,” in LES MISERABLES in the Original Los Angeles Production and then on the National Tour, He starred as Tybalt in ROMEO AND JULIET directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher opposite Hamish Linklater as Romeo, and played The Painter in AMOUR at the Goodspeed Opera house directed by Tony Award Winning Team of Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Darko Tresnjak and Peggy Hickey and played MAN #2 in GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Tuachan Center for the Arts directed by Peggy Hickey. He has played Eddie Ryan opposite Judy Blazer and Michael Nouri in FUNNY GIRL at Robert Redford’s Sundance Complex in Utah and starred as Uncle Louie in LOST IN YONKERS opposite the late Erin Moran from Happy Days.

Joshua recently played the hilarious comedic villain Bud Frump in HOW TO SUCCEED… at the Alex Theatre and received another VC and Scenie award as Leo Frank in PARADE at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts. Joshua has starred as the enigmatic lyricist from A CHORUS LINE, Ed Kleban in A CLASS ACT at the Alex Theatre which received rave reviews.
Joshua’s voice can be heard on the Original Cast Recordings of KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, BARK! as Ben, and as the voice of ARTSCENE VISUAL RADIO on ARTSCENECAL.com. In Film and Television Joshua has starred opposite Bruce Willis, Marcia Cross, Kathleen Quinlan, Kalista Flockhart, Robert Morse and Jill Clayburgh to name a few, in such projects as THE KID, ALLY McBEAL (Emmy award), FAMILY LAW, HUCKLEBERRY DREAMS and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.

However his favorite film role was getting to create the Live Action Reference Footage as Prince Eric in Disney’s animated classic THE LITTLE MERMAID. Joshua’s interview about the process can be seen on the DVD Extras for the 25th anniversary Blu-Ray release of the film.