Joe is proud to be a member of Dell'Arte's core faculty after several years as a guest instructor specializing in acrobatics and clown, and five years as a faculty member in MFA Actor Training Program at University of Missouri at Kansas City. Joe has toured nationally as a clown with the New Pickle Circus, and as a puppeteer with Tears of Joy Theatre. Some of his original works of theatre include: Whatnot!, a hybrid of clown, puppetry, and mask- parts of which were seen at the Here Art Center in New York City; Bluff, a clown play that premiered at Dell'Arte's 2001 Mad River Festival; and most recently The Barnabies Five, a clown play featuring an eccentric family of traveling musicians. Joe is a Dell'Arte graduate, has trained under the direction of Master Trainer Mr. Lu Yi at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts, and is a certified teacher of the FM Alexander Technique.