Rosa Joshi
Rosa Joshi is a director, producer and educator. She currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a founder of upstart crow collective, a company that produces classical plays with casts of women and non-binary people. She was Interim Artistic Director at Northwest Asian American Theatre and Artistic Director of New City Second Company in Seattle.
Rosa Joshi is a director, producer and educator. She currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a founder of upstart crow collective, a company that produces classical plays with casts of women and non-binary people. She was Interim Artistic Director at Northwest Asian American Theatre and Artistic Director of New City Second Company in Seattle.
Directing Credits include: Julius Caesar (upstart crow and Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Coriolanus adapted by Sean San José (upstart crow collective, Play On, Portland Center Stage & Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Wolf Play by Hansol Young (ACT Contemporary Theatre); Mala by Melisa Lopez. American Players Theatre; King John (upstart crow collective, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Actors Theatre of Louisville); Macbeth, adapted by Lee Sunday Evans. (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); The Bonesetter’s Daughter adapted by Desdemona Chiang (Book-It Repertory Theater); Bring Down the House an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V plays, by Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski (upstart crow collective and Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Henry IV.1 (The Folger Theater); Henry V (OSF); As You Like It (OSF), Richard III (upstart crow and Seattle Shakespeare Theatre).
Rosa was on the theatre faculty of Seattle University from 2000-2022, where she was a tenured full professor and served as the Chair of the Department of Performing Arts and Arts Leadership. She has also taught at University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, Hong Kong University and Cornish College for the Arts.
Rosa has served on the Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library and Washington Ensemble Theatre. She holds an M.F.A. in directing from the Yale School of Drama and B.A. in Theatre and Psychology from Bucknell University.
As of July, 2025.