Faculty

Josephine is the Chair of the Acting Division at AMDA New York. Prior to joining AMDA, she was Chair of the Acting for Film Department at the New York Film Academy where she guided the creation of a new BFA program. She spent several years at Shakespeare and Company as a company member, acting, teaching, directing, and training.  In New York, she had the honor to work with Lincoln Center Theatre; teaching and developing its Shakespeare curriculum for schools. She is a member of The Humanist Project, a theatre company that devises new pieces rooted in the classics, and Shakespeare on the Fly, a theatre company that employs Shakespeare's original practices. She recently played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and several roles in a 5-person Macbeth. She has written and performed a play in verse, Psyche, which she performed at Dixon Place, played Dori Mae the short film, No Loss Here (2020), and voiced the award-winning short, animated film Understanding Delirium (2024) (Best Animated Short Independent Shorts Awards).  Josephine is a proud member of Actor's Equity and holds an MFA from Pennsylvania State University.