Joe Wilson, Jr.

Previous Trinity Rep Roles
A Christmas Carol; Our Town; Yermolai Lopakin, Cherry Orchard; El Gallo, The Fantasticks; Horatio, Hamlet; Boots on the Ground; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Topdog/Underdog, Best Actor, 2005 IRNE  (Independent Reviewers of New England) Awards.

2007-2008 season
Willie Stark, All the King's Men; Ghost of Christmas Present, A Christmas Carol.

Tours
National tour of Covergirls with Kim Fields.

Broadway
Ensemble, Jesus Christ Superstar at the Ford Center.

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

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