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Joseph Bernard Fuqua (born May 3, 1962 inWashington, D.C.) is an Americanactor,director,instructor andplaywright.
Fuqua attained hisActor's Equity card after a two-year internship with theCincinnati Playhouse in the Park (this after three years atJames Madison University). Fuqua received his graduate-level training at theYale School of Drama and moved back toNew York City upon graduation. He joined the Cuccaracha Theater ofSoho and spent six years as a company member.
He is perhaps best known for his role asJ. E. B. Stuart in the filmsGettysburg andGods and Generals. Fuqua also appears in the filmsDavid Searching oppositeCamryn Manheim,Heyday,Something Else, and has an uncredited appearance as Bond Trader Boyce, a stockbroker, inEd's Next Move.
He has guest starred in the television seriesThe 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 andThe Wright Verdicts. Joseph also appeared in the pilots forSecond Nature,Born and Bred,Elementary andNumb3rs.
Fuqua has acted in over 100 plays over the past 30 years, and is the first permanent company member at theRubicon Theatre Company inVentura, 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'sAll 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 playedHamlet, 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 starringJohn Ritter. He has directed the Youth Intern production ofThis is Our Youth, and for Rubicon's Fearless Shakespeare Youth Summer Program, the Summer Youth productions ofA Midsummer Night's Dream,Bard On A Wire,Macbeth,As You Like It,The Life and Death of King John,Romeo and Juliet, andKing Lear. In June 2015, Joseph directedHamlet 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 includeThe Mystery of Irma Vep,Private Lives andSix Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Ensemble Theatre,Santa Barbara), andFabuloso (Wellfleet Actors Harbor Theatre,Wellfleet, Massachusetts). Other regional theatre credits include theArena 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 andYale Repertory Theatre.
Fuqua is the son of Brigadier General Stephen O. Fuqua Jr. (1911–1999) and grandson of Major GeneralStephen O. Fuqua.[2][3]
| 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) |