Faculty Profiles

Dr. Joseph R Falocco

PhD in English

Univ of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2006

MFA in Theatre

Roosevelt University, 2000

BA in Acting

DePaul University, 1997

Falocco, Joseph R. Bilingual Comedy of Errors, Texas State University, $2000. (Submitted: November 11, 2018, Funded: January 19, 2019 - May 15, 2019). Grant.
Falocco, Joe (Principal). Library Research Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1363. (Funded: 2012). Grant.
Falocco, Joseph R. Funding for Student Actor Travel, Texas State University, $2050. (Submitted: October 15, 2022, Funded: December 15, 2022 - April 6, 2023). Grant.
Falocco, Joseph R (Principal). Shakespeare Without Fear: Teaching the Plays, National Endowment for Humanities, Federal, $63000. (Funded: October 1, 2017 - July 31, 2018). Grant.
Falocco, Joe (Principal). One-Time Only Diversity Grant, Equity and Access Committee Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $2500. (Submitted: February 1, 2015, Funded: June 1, 2017 - July 15, 2017). Grant.

Falocco, J. R. (2024). “Performance Scripts of Richard III Throughout Theatrical History.” Shakespeare Bulletin, 42(3), 369–385.
Falocco, J. R. (2021). *"Lleno de Tejanidad: Staging a Bilingual “Comedy of Errors” in Central Texas.". In Shakespeare and Latinidad (pp. 170–177). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
Falocco, J. R. (n.d.). Review of “Sir Thomas More” by Resurgens Theatre Company. Shakespeare Bulletin (3rd ed., Vol. 44). Stuanton, VA, USA.
Cardenio. August 15, 2026 - September 27, 2026.
Performances:
- September 24, 2026 - September 27, 2026
- (Invited) Reviewed by: Peter Kirwan.
Actor - Roberto Miranda, Death and the Maiden/ La Muerte y la Doncella. May 15, 2026 - August 30, 2026.
Performances:
- Performance. August 28, 2026 - August 30, 2026 Tiedtke Performing Arts, Rollins College.

Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor of International Studies, Texas State University. January 20, 2023
Award / Honor Recipient: In Honor of Service to Texas State Theatre Department, Named Honorary “Guest Director” for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 2014
Award / Honor Recipient: Vera Mowry Roberts Outstanding Essay Award for “Tommaso Salvini’s Othello and Racial Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”, American Theatre and Drama Society. 2013
Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Dissertation Award for “Elizabethan Staging in the Twentieth Century: Theatrical Practice and Cultural Context,”, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2006