Joseph Price
Dean, Conservatory
Education
M.F.A., Southern Methodist University; B.F.A., University of Minnesota Duluth
About Joseph Price
糖心传媒 is proud to announce the appointment of Joseph Price as Dean of the Conservatory for the Performing Arts, effective July 6, 2026.
Price brings more than twenty-five years of senior leadership experience in higher education and professional performing arts organizations, and over three decades as a director, producer, educator, and administrator. Price is deeply committed to student-centered training, faculty collaboration, and nationally visible artistic programming. Joseph Price recently served as Executive Director of Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in Minnesota. He previously held academic leadership roles as Department Head of Theatre and Dance and Producer of Tent Theatre at Missouri State University, and as Program Director for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program. He spent 11 years at the University of Missouri鈥揔ansas City/Kansas City Repertory Theatre, where he served as Associate Head of MFA Acting.
A founding member of Chicago鈥檚 A Red Orchid Theatre, Price has directed extensively in regional and academic settings. His professional directing credits include聽Clybourne Park,听Xanadu,听The 39 Steps,听The Lieutenant of Inishmore,听Well,听Painted Alice,听Bright Ideas,听Blue/Orange,听Fuddy Meers,听The Shape of Things,听The Pillowman, and the world premiere of James Still鈥檚聽The Velvet Rut. Additional directing work includes聽The Cripple of Inishmaan聽(Kansas City Actors Theatre),听A Steady Rain聽(Riverside Theatre), and the world premiere of聽Wild Boy: The Musical, with a book by Sesame Street head writer Lou Berger.
His academic directing credits include聽The American Clock,听Uncle Vanya,听A Bright New Boise,听Enron,听Anything Goes,听Present Laughter,听Boesman and Lena,听Tape,听The Importance of Being Earnest,听Polaroid Stories,听Mad Forest, and聽Killer Joe. He also collaborated with Carl Wilkens to develop a stage adaptation of聽I鈥檓 Not Leaving, chronicling Wilkens鈥� experience during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Price oversaw interdepartmental planning for the construction and opening of the John Goodman Amphitheatre at Missouri State, integrating academic programming and professional production operations to ensure a seamless launch鈥攅xperience that speaks directly to complex facilities management, production oversight, and institutional collaboration.
As an actor, Price has appeared in numerous regional theatre productions, commercials, and the CBS series聽Dangerous Curves. Early in his career, he starred as 鈥淐hoo Choo the Clown鈥� in the Preschool Express video series. He holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University.