Joe Barros (he/him) is an award-winning queer director, choreographer and writer working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, and in film. Barros has been the Artistic Director of New York Theatre Barn for the past 15 years (an inclusive home for original culture shifting musicals during incubation), A&R Director of Theatre Barn Records (an imprint of Broadway Records), and host of Broadway Podcast Network’s podcast The Musicals of Tomorrow. Broadway: Gigi (associate director). Off-Broadway: The Evolution of Mann (with Max Crumm and Allie Trimm), Bastard Jones (with Evan Ruggiero), Cagney (associate director). Regional/Int'l: A Charlie Brown Christmas (two simultaneous national tours), Beaches (Chicago’s Drury Lane), Aida (Singapore), Breathe (with Matt Doyle and Max Clayton), plus Goodspeed, DC’s Signature Theatre, Broadway in Chicago, The Phoenix Theatre Company, Bucks County Playhouse, Kaixinmahua (Shanghai). Joe is co-writing a musical about Ruth Coker Burks which excavates an untold chapter of the AIDS crisis and a muted time in queer history. www.joebarros.com