Josh Glenn-Kayden (he/him) is a Boston based director, the Artistic Producer and Casting Director at Company One Theatre, and a co-producer of the Legion Theatre Project. Josh's work centers around new plays that help us imagine a more equitable and just world together.
Most recently, Josh directed the world premiere of The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine for Company One Theatre. The Interrobangers was nominated for 4 Elliot Norton Awards, including Outstanding Play. Other favorite directing projects include Break, Break by Erin Lerch (Legion Theatre Project & Artists’ Theatre of Boston), Muse by Sarah Wendy Burman (Wellesley College), Shrike by Erin Lerch (Fresh Ink Theatre), Wild Flowers by Tatiana Isabel Gil (Company One Better Future series), Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theatre for Social Justice Movements (consisting of new plays by Phaedra Michelle Scott, M Sloth Levine, and Jaymes Sanchez) at UMass Amherst, Baltimore by Kirsten Greenidge (UMass Amherst), Walden by Amy Berryman (UMass Play Lab), Greater Good by Kirsten Greenidge (A.R.T. & Company One, associate director), the world premiere of This Place/Displaced (Artists’ Theater of Boston, ArtsFuse Best Stage Productions of 2018), The Lyons by Nicky Silver (Titanic Theatre), and Don’t Give Up the Ship by Laura Neill (Fresh Ink Theatre). Josh is also the director and co-producer of The Legion Tapes, a sci-fi podcast written by Erin Lerch.
Josh has directed and developed new work for the A.R.T., Company One Theatre, Fresh Ink Theatre, Flat Earth Theatre, Artists’ Theater of Boston, the Museum of Science, UMass Amherst, Wellesley College, and Hub Theatre, among others. Josh has worked with playwrights including Kirsten Greenidge, Amy Berryman, M Sloth Levine, Laura Neill, Jaymes Sanchez, Phaedra Michelle Scott, David Valdes, Jeni Mahoney, Erin Lerch, and more.
Josh holds a BA in Drama from Tufts University and an MFA in Directing from UMass Amherst.