Joel Ferrell is an experienced and accomplished director and choreographer of American theater.

Dallas Theater Center

Joel served as the Associate Artistic Director of the Dallas Theater Center from 2011-2019. During his tenure there, his directing/choreography credits include:

• Dreamgirls
• The Rocky Horror Show
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat
• Cabaret
• A Christmas Carol (2005-2009, 2011, 2012)

DTC directing credits include:

• Romeo and Juliet
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Clybourne Park
• Red
• God of Carnage
• Dividing the Estate
• reasons to be pretty
• The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
• Cotton Patch Gospel (starring its creator Tom Key) 

DTC choreography credits include:

• It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Who’s Tommy
• My Fair Lady

Freelance Director

Trinity Shakespeare Festival (Fort Worth, TX)

• Love’s Labor Lost
• Comedy of Errors

Lyric Theater of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, OK)

• Kopit and Yeston’s Phantom
• Peter Pan
• Wizard of Oz
• Aida

Portland Center Stage: Choreographer (Portland, OR)

• Cabaret
• West Side Story
• Ragtime
• Guys And Dolls
• Sunset Boulevard
• Oklahoma!
• My Fair Lady

Second Thought Theater (Dallas, TX)

• Gruesome Playground Injuries
• Othello
• The Necessities (World Premier)

Stage West (Fort Worth, TX)

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’keeffe
• The Baltimore Waltz

Denver Center Theater (Denver, Colorado)

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• DragOn

Circle Theater (Fort Worth, TX)

• One Man Two Governors
• Sweeney Todd

Casa Manana Theater

Joel served as the Artistic Director of Casa Manana Theater (Fort Worth, Texas) from 1996-2001. During this time, he directed the majority of the theater’s mainstage productions, moving between Casa Manana’s 1,800-seat theater-in-the-round and the 2,100-seat Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth. A sampling of these productions include:

• Big River
• Carousel
• Oklahoma!
• Godspell
• Once On This Island
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Jekyl and Hyde
• Grease
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• A Chorus Line
• Sleuth
• Steel Magnolias
• Deathtrap
• Lend Me A Tenor
• Moon Over Buffalo
• Here’s Love
• The King And I