Joshua William Gelb
Joshua William Gelb is an Obie and Drama League Award–winning director, performer, and creative technologist. He is the founder of Theater in Quarantine, the digital performance laboratory that began in an eight-square-foot East Village closet. Recent projects include Phantom of the Opera and Nosferatu, both commissioned and presented by NYU Skirball; The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy, co-created with Sinking Ship Productions and presented at the Under the Radar Festival in association with New York Theatre Workshop and Lucille Lortel Theatre; and [Untitled Miniature], a durational hybrid installation developed at HERE. In 2022, Gelb premiered TiQ's first in-person work at the NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. TiQ has been additionally presented by NCState Live, Colgate University, The Invisible Dog, New Georges, A2SF, Theater Mitu, La Mama, CultureHub, UMD, Exponential. TiQ’s pandemic-era archive has been acquired by the Library of Congress.