Joan MacIntosh

Joan MacIntosh has had an acclaimed acting career for over 50 years, on Broadway, off-Broadway, in resident theaters, and on tour in the UK, Europe, South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan. She has been teaching acting in universities and in workshops throughout the world for as long as she’s been acting. Currently she is a Professor in the Practice of Acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and in the Theatre Studies program.

In 1967 she co-founded the celebrated experimental theatre, The Performance Group. Joan won OBIES for their productions of Dionysus in 69, The Tooth of Crime, and one for Distinguished Performance in Commune. She played Mother Courage in their production of Mother Courage and her Children that played in NY and toured the US, Europe, and India. Among her favorite roles: Guthrie: Hedda Gabler, The Three Sisters.

Broadway: Orpheus Descending, The Seagull, Our Town, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. NYSF: The Bacchae, Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1,8,& 9, 365 Days/365 Plays, All’s Well that Ends Well. Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, A Bright Room Called Day, Three Acts of Recognition, Dispatches, and Alice in Concert.

NYTW: The Misanthrope, Alice in Bed, More Stately Mansions, for which she won a Herald Angel Award, Drama League Award, and OBIE for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Joan also won a Drama Desk Award for Request Concert, and the 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Britannicus.

Her latest film work includes "Split," and "I Am a Seagull."
Grants include: JDR 3rd Fund for travel and study in India and Southeast Asia; USIA grant for travel and study in India, Southeast Asia, and South Africa; ITI grant for travel in Eastern Europe, Spencer Cherashore Grant.

Joan is a Fox Fellow, and a proud member of The Actors Center. She is currently writing a book about her life in the experimental theatre, 1967-78.