Biography

Joel Reitsma is a Chicago-based stage, screen, and voice actor, with a B.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago and has earned many local theatre and film credits. With a nomination for a Joseph Jefferson award for best actor in a principal role, Joel continues to work, live, and make theatre in the globally renowned Chicago theatre community, and he's often found working on stage at his artistic home as an ensemble member with the award-winning Steep Theatre Company. He has been working locally in the film and television industry, and has recently starred in leading roles in two local independent short films, Streamline, and Closure, and starred in two local independent features, Older Children, and The World Without You, both in supporting roles.
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Joel Reitsma is a Chicago-based stage, screen, and voice actor, with a B.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago and has earned many local theatre and film credits. With three nominations for the Joseph Jefferson award for best actor in a principal role, Joel continues to work, live, and make theatre in the globally renowned Chicago theatre community, and he's often found working on stage at his artistic home as an ensemble member with the award-winning Steep Theatre Company. He has been working locally in the film and television industry, and has recently starred in leading roles in two local independent short films, Streamline, and Closure, and appears in several local independent features, including Older Children, and The World Without You, and 100 Days To Live.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Joel Reitsma is a stage, screen, and voice actor, and writer with a B.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago and has worked extensively in the Chicago Theatre, Film, and TV community. With three nomination for a Joseph Jefferson award for best actor in a principal role, Joel is often found working on stage at his artistic home as an ensemble member with the award-winning Steep Theatre Company in Chicago. He has been working ambitiously in the film and television industry, and has recently starred in leading roles in local independent short and feature films, and guest starred and costarred in major network TV shows.
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He was nominated for a 2019 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Performer in a Principal Role in a Play for "Birdland" at the Steep Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Principal Actor for a Play for "Motortown" at the Steep Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 2018 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Performer in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Invisible Hand" at the Steep Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.