Joe Lafollette(I)
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Born and raised in Denver, Joe LaFollette excelled at acting from a young age, attending the Denver School of the Arts for seven years as a Theatre major. He went on to get a BA in Theatre Performance with minor studies in Poetry and Dance at Emerson College. There, Joe received a rich acting education from professors like film/stage actor Ken Cheeseman, in areas ranging from improvisation to film acting, stage combat to action theatre, and Human Rights in Theatre.
His most exciting projects in college were The Requiem (a student film and Joe's first serious film acting project) and The Golden Age, a main stage theatre production in which he portrayed a non verbal autistic boy. The show was attended by specialists/teachers who worked with autistic youth and they praised his performance as "120% accurate".
Since graduating, Joe has performed in productions all over Denver, including a devised sketch show about then candidate Donald Trump, a Shakespeare adaptation called Flaming of the Shrew, cameo roles in regional shows like Les Liaisons Dangereuses at The Miners Alley Playhouse, and a starring role as Stanley in the Evergreen Players production of Brighton Beach Memoirs.
He is proud to be a regular role player with C-WORX, an acting company that participates in Crisis Intervention Trainings (CIT) with police departments all around Colorado. Joe is also pursuing film acting. He is taking the intermediate TV/Film acting workshops at Denver's own AEC Studios with John Crockett and Brian McCulley and most recently he can be seen in a 12-minute film project called "The Thin Shade", written, directed, and produced by Haydn Winston.
Joe is still extremely passionate about both writing and dance. A long time fan and student of Hip Hop, he is applying both skills to participate in the culture. He is learning Krump (an intense battle form of Hip Hop dance from South Central L.A.) with Dillon "Droid" Schneebeck and the Colorowdy crew, and is sharpening his rhyming skills on the mic and with the pen.
Above all, Joe LaFollette wants to make art that is necessary and life-changing, and hopes to use his energies to give back to the people and the planet.
His most exciting projects in college were The Requiem (a student film and Joe's first serious film acting project) and The Golden Age, a main stage theatre production in which he portrayed a non verbal autistic boy. The show was attended by specialists/teachers who worked with autistic youth and they praised his performance as "120% accurate".
Since graduating, Joe has performed in productions all over Denver, including a devised sketch show about then candidate Donald Trump, a Shakespeare adaptation called Flaming of the Shrew, cameo roles in regional shows like Les Liaisons Dangereuses at The Miners Alley Playhouse, and a starring role as Stanley in the Evergreen Players production of Brighton Beach Memoirs.
He is proud to be a regular role player with C-WORX, an acting company that participates in Crisis Intervention Trainings (CIT) with police departments all around Colorado. Joe is also pursuing film acting. He is taking the intermediate TV/Film acting workshops at Denver's own AEC Studios with John Crockett and Brian McCulley and most recently he can be seen in a 12-minute film project called "The Thin Shade", written, directed, and produced by Haydn Winston.
Joe is still extremely passionate about both writing and dance. A long time fan and student of Hip Hop, he is applying both skills to participate in the culture. He is learning Krump (an intense battle form of Hip Hop dance from South Central L.A.) with Dillon "Droid" Schneebeck and the Colorowdy crew, and is sharpening his rhyming skills on the mic and with the pen.
Above all, Joe LaFollette wants to make art that is necessary and life-changing, and hopes to use his energies to give back to the people and the planet.
