Joshua Kurtz 
Ever since seeing a live production of Singing in the Rain, Joshua Kurtz knew he wanted to be involved in the theater. After watching the song Make 'Em Laugh, Josh leaned over to his mother and whispered into her ear, "I want to be like that guy!"
Since then, Joshua pursued his dream. He attended the Drama Academy at Gloucester County Institute of Technology. He has performed in numerous Community Theater productions throughout South Jersey, including Guys and Dolls, Ragtime, Seussical the Musical, and Aida. He has also appeared in several short films and sketches on the internet. He is currently attending The Young Americans College of the Performing Arts, and looks forward to performing with them in tours around the globe.
Josh enjoys helping others help themselves, and will regularly coach his friends through a class or audition, even if they are trying out for the same role as him. "I love to see people do well", says Josh. This is most apparent in the Live Action Role Playing (LARP) group he founded and facilitates. 20-50 kids (mostly teens), and the occasional adult, get together to role-play. Of course everyone comes for the fun, but they walk away with more. Josh, a natural leader and organizer, helps others to use improvisation and other theatrical techniques not only to immerse themselves in the game, but to build self confidence and camaraderie.
His latest accomplishments ground his roots even further in theater. Joshua wrote, produced and directed True Villains - The Musical, an original, full length show. The premier production sold out his high schools’ small theater four nights in a row and was later procuded by Mainstage Center for the Arts. His second musical, 'Till Death do us Part, met with riotous aclaim. In Josh's most recent production, he colaborated with Dominic Fera on Ordinary People, Ordinary Problems - a series of one-acts that are anything but ordinary.
"This is what I want to be when I grow up", Says Josh, referring to his involvement in the performing arts at age 18. "At this age, almost every teenager is thinking and dreaming of their future. I'm living my future right here, right now."
What's New
The Young Americans
UK Tour
Jan-Mar 2012
The Young Americans
East Coast Tour
Sep-Nov, 2011
Wonderland
August 19-21, 2011
Ordinary People, Ordinary Problems
Performed May 6-8, 2011
'Till Death do us Part
The Musical
Performed Aug 20-22, 2010
Turnersville actor & writer
has musical in production
True Villains the Musical
was presented at
Mainstage Center for the Arts
June 25 & 26, 2010
True Villains the Musical
premeired at GCIT, Dec 9, 2009
