Joseph Meissner

Joseph Meissner is a teacher, independent filmmaker, writer, comedian and actor with over 35 professional film and television credits and 40 years theater experience. He directed the award-winning projects Flood Streets, a feature from Executive Producer Harry Shearer that played film festivals in the U.S. and Europe, and the Webby-honored comedy webseries Least Favorite Love Songs. He was a founding company member of the nationally-renowned Salvage Vanguard Theater of Austin, TX and as an actor/director has worked with some of the most esteemed film actors (William Hurt, Mark Walburg, Andie MacDowell, Jeffrey Wright, Chazz Palminteri) and important theater directors (Jerzy Grotowski, Andre Gregory, Lee Breuer) of the last century. He was on the drama faculty of the New Orleans Center for Creative arts and weekly performer and teacher at an improv and sketch comedy theater in New Orleans, where he also founded and ran a martial arts school for seventeen years. He earned a BA in Theater from Brown University.