Joseph was born May 3rd in Washington, D.C., USA, which makes him a Taurus (for those who have astrological interests). He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama (1990), and a recipient of their Oliver Thorndike Award.

Joseph Fuqua

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Joseph Bernard Fuqua (born May 3, 1962 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor, director, instructor and playwright.

Career

Fuqua attained his Actor's Equity card after a two-year internship with the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (this after three years at James Madison University). Fuqua received his graduate-level training at the Yale School of Drama and moved back to New York City upon graduation. He joined the Cuccaracha Theater of Soho and spent six years as a company member.

He is perhaps best known for his role as J. E. B. Stuart in the films Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. Fuqua also appears in the films David Searching opposite Camryn Manheim, Heyday, Something Else, and has an uncredited appearance as Bond Trader Boyce, a stockbroker, in Ed's Next Move.

He has guest starred in the television series The X-Files (in the episode "Synchrony"),^[1] Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Rocks and Shoals"), Chicago Hope (in the episode "Gun with the Wind"), Becker, NYPD Blue, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Profiler, G vs E, Brooklyn South and The Wright Verdicts. Joseph also appeared in the pilots for Second Nature, Born and Bred, Elementary and Numb3rs.

Fuqua has acted in over 100 plays over the past 30 years, and is the first permanent company member at the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, California. He has acted in 30 plays at Rubicon over the course of 15 seasons (with his 30th appearance in fall 2014). Fuqua received an L.A. Ovation Award (Rubicon's first Ovation Award) for his performance as George in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, directed by Rubicon Artistic Director James O'Neill.

Throughout his tenure at Rubicon, Fuqua has played a variety of characters of different ages, types, dialects, and backgrounds. For Rubicon's 2006–2007 Balancing Acts season, Joseph played Hamlet, under the direction of Rubicon Artistic Associate Jenny Sullivan, for which he received the 2007 Indy Award for Best Actor and the 2007 Santa Barbara Independent Leading Actor Award.

Along with acting at Rubicon, Fuqua is an instructor for their Adult Acting Classes, Fearless Shakespeare Youth Summer Program, served as Associate Director for their production of Jenny Sullivan's original play, J for J, and served as the play's director for the Los Angeles run starring John Ritter. He has directed the Youth Intern production of This is Our Youth, and for Rubicon's Fearless Shakespeare Youth Summer Program, the Summer Youth productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bard On A Wire, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Life and Death of King John, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear. In June 2015, Joseph directed Hamlet for that program in a three week rehearsal process with Shakespeare doctor and star of Circuit, Jonathan Wade Drahos.

Fuqua's stage appearances outside of Rubicon include The Mystery of Irma Vep, Private Lives and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Ensemble Theatre, Santa Barbara), and Fabuloso (Wellfleet Actors Harbor Theatre, Wellfleet, Massachusetts). Other regional theatre credits include the Arena Stage, Portland Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Santa Fe Stages, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Edinburgh Festival, Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo, American Stage Festival, People's Light and Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse and Yale Repertory Theatre.

Family

Fuqua is the son of Brigadier General Stephen O. Fuqua Jr. (1911–1999) and grandson of Major General Stephen O. Fuqua.^[2]^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Gettysburg	Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart
1996	Ed's Next Move	Bond Trader Bryce
1997	David Searching	Walter Pryor
2003	Gods and Generals	Col. J. E. B. Stuart	(final film role)

References

Cornell, Paul; Day, Martin; Topper, Keith (2013). X-Treme Possibilities: A Paranoid Rummage Through The X-Files. Orion Publishing Group. p. 246. ISBN 9780575133358. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
"Familiar face to tackle lead role in 'Hamlet'". Ventura County Star. Camarillo, CA. April 26, 2007. Archived from the original on May 4, 2007. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
HGS (January–February 2000). Olejniczak, Julian M. (ed.). "Obituary, Stephen Ogden Fuqua". Assembly. West Point, NY: Association of Graduates. p. 149 – via Google Books.

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Here is Joseph’s bio, as it appears in the RTC Program for their current production of The 39 Steps:

JOSEPH FUQUA (Richard Hannay) most recently appeared with Rubicon as Sheriff/Charle/Joe in Bonnie & Clyde, Thomas Allen in Dark of the Moon and Jimmy in Almost Maine directed by RTC Associate Artistic Director Stephanie Coltrin. Last spring, Joseph appeared with the Pinehurst Players, NC as Polonius in Hamlet. An MFA graduate of the Yale School of Drama, his Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Brighton Beach Memoirs, 110 in the Shade at Lincoln Center, and Raft of the Medusa. Regionally, Joseph has appeared as Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Alexei in A Month in the Country at Arena Stage; Iago in Othello for Shakespeare Festival of Dallas; Louis in Angels in America at Dallas Theatre Center; and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, Macbeth and Fallen Angels at Ensemble Theatre, Santa Barbara. On television, Joseph guest starred in “The X-Files,” “The Profiler,” “Brooklyn South,” “The Pretender,” “Chicago Hope,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Becker,” and the pilot “Second Nature.” Film credits include “Ed’s Next Move,” “David Searching,” “Heyday,” and as J.E.B. Stuart in “Gettysburg” opposite Martin Sheen, a role he reprised in the film “Gods and Generals.” In 2000, Joseph joined Rubicon Theatre as the first company member (this year marks his 25th season!). His 35 roles with the company include the title role in Hamlet (Indy Award), The Boys Next Door (Indy Award), The Little Foxes, The Rainmaker (Robby Award and Rep Award), Murder in the First, The Glass Menagerie, All My Sons (Ovation Award), Man of La Mancha, Conviction, Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Fuddy Mears, King Lear, Incognito, South Pacific, and, just prior to the pandemic, Pap in Big River. In July, Joseph directed his sixteenth Shakespeare production with Rubicon’s Fearless Shakespeare Intensive which he co-founded. He currently serves as the director of Rubicon’s Summer Youth Program. Joseph is eternally grateful to Jim O’Neil and Karyl Lynn Burns and Artistic Associate Jenny Sullivan for their trust and support over the years. Viva la Rubicon!