Josie Harding

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Josie Harding

she/her

Director, actor, movement choreographer

ABOUT ME

Josie Harding is an actor, director, and movement choreographer based in New York City. She holds a Bachelors degree in theatre from The City College of New York with a dual concentration in acting and directing and a minor in anthropology.

Josie's work has a strong base in community building, collaboration, and creative exploration. Her work often explores themes of femininity, social class, and their intersection.

In addition to her New York work, Josie is a huge supporter of the second-wave regional theater movement. Josie believes that theatre has an unparalleled ability to create community and, ultimately, change an audiences' perspective. She strives to ensure that high quality theatre is accessible to all people; regardless of socioeconomic class or location.

Josie also frequently works with non-profit education programs as a teaching artist. Josie is not union affiliated and is seeking representation.

Directing & Movement

Josie works collaboratively with her actors to create strong characters and themes through movement.

Her approach - exploratory, mind

bending, dreamlike, surreal,

transporting - is executed with just

the right amount of liberation,

passion, desire and carefree abandon

-James V. Ruocco

Seymour Peck Award

Excellence in Acting, 2019

Seymour Peck Award

Excellence in Acting, 2018

BroadwayWorld.com Award

CT Regional

Best Supporting Actress, 2014

upcoming

mean girls the musical

August 11-13

Josie will continue her residency with The Brookfield Theatre for the Arts with their upcoming production of Mean Girls

reviews

2023

A review: urinetown, James V. Ruocco

They don't come any better than Josephine Harding and here, as in the recent Brookfield Theatre staging of "Spring Awakening," her gift for choreography gives "Urinetown: The Musical" its creative spin, its atmospheric aura and its magical tingle. Surrounded by a gifted company of performers, Harding's crisp, tight, informational choreography captures the angst, illusion and intensity of the telling, its nod to both parody and dystopia, its amped up exhilaration, its desperation and its salute to musical theatre abandonment. Elsewhere, her fresh feel for the show's musical staging comes across with the complexity and originality of someone skilled in Broadway bravado, its live performance execution and its framed visual flair.

2023

My thoughts on spring awakening, bill hughes

Movement/choreography (by Josephine Harding) that easily equals and even surpasses the original, sometimes a surprise militant march, sometimes as simple as a touching gestural pas de deux, yet never feeling less than organic and owned by each performer. It is its own triumph.

A review: spring Awakening, James V. Ruocco

A five-star talent with a distinct style and visualization, delivered here with great artistry and conceptual brilliance. Her approach - exploratory, mind-bending, dreamlike, surreal, transporting - is executed with just the right amount of genius, liberation, passion, desire and carefree abandon. It is also very different from the Broadway staging (Harding puts her own personal stamp on the material), but smartly in sync with the show's complicated, beautiful lyrics, its varying beats and rhythms, its themes of sexual exploration and self-discovery and its invigorating, contagious musicality. Its flashes of pure excellence, accomplished stylization, inventive pairing and streamlined interplay mixed with emotive punk expressionism and organic thrust succeed as both dance art and coordinated, voltage-charged expression.