Joe Wilson, Jr.

Previous Trinity Rep Roles
A Christmas Carol; Horatio, Hamlet; Boots on the Ground; Ain't Misbehavin'; Topdog/Underdog, Best Actor, 2005 IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Awards; Yermolai Lopakin, Cherry Orchard; Our Town; El Gallo, The Fantasticks; Willie Stark, All the King's Men, 2008 Elliot Norton Award nomination; Sam, Paris by Night.

2008-2009 season
Thersites/Oedipus, The Dreams of Antigone; Scrooge, A Christmas Carol; Walter Lee Younger, A Raisin in the Sun.

Tours
National tour of Covergirls with Kim Fields.

Broadway
Jesus Christ Superstar at the Ford Center.

Off Broadway
Little Ham, John Houseman Theatre; Josephine’s Song, York Theatre.

Other Theaters
Ain't Misbehavin', North Shore Music Theatre; Topdog/Underdog, 5 Guys named Moe, Alliance Theater in Atlanta; Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holliday, FOX Theatre in Atlanta; Romeo and Juliet McCarter Theater; Romeo and Juliet, Syracuse Stage; Much Ado About Nothing, Thunder Knocking at the Door, both at the Guthrie Theater; Romeo & Juliet: The Musical, Ordway Music Theater; Once On This Island, Cinderella, Whale, and Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Children’s Theater; The Negro of Peter the Great, Straight as a Line, Playwrights’ Center; and at the Penumbra Theater Company in Black Nativity; A Raisin in the Sun, and Fences.

Film
Mr. Wilson was featured in Just Another Story for Showtime.

Other
Mr. Wilson has been an instructor of Acting/Stage Combat at Tulane University; instructor of Acting at University of Notre Dame, Penumbra Theater Co. He served as a member of the acting company at the Children's Theater Company and Adjunct Faculty in Theatre Arts at University of Minnesota.  He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and his MFA in Acting at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater.