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Joseph Anthony Foronda (1954-2023)

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Joseph Anthony Foronda was a titan in the musical theater world - from Chicago to Broadway to the famed stages of London’s West End, who was known for his searing performances and being a major leader and pioneer for the AAPI acting community.

Broadyway credits: Engineer in Miss Saigon (Theatre Under The Stars, Casa Manaña Theatre, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Marriott Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook, Paramount Theatre, Broadway Theatre, and 1st/2nd national tours); Samurai, Soothsayer, Thief, Storyteller in Pacific Overtures (Roundabout Theatre Company); Lord Buntaro in SHOGUN: The Musical (Marquis Theatre). 

Regional/International theater credits: Archie Beaton in Brigadoon (Goodman Theatre); Zhong Yi in Stuck Elevator (American Conservatory Theater); Ridge in The House That Jack Built (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Man Over 60 in The Golden Dragon (Studio Theatre); HYH in Yellowface (Silk Road Rising); Sitting Bull in Annie Get Your Gun (Ravinia Festival); Director in Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, Soothsayer in Antony and Cleopatra, Major Meryl and Ensemble in The Yeomen of the Guard (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Wang Chi-Yang in Flower Drum Song (AMTSJ); Nick/Prudencio in The Romance of Magno Rubio (Victory Gardens Theater); Javert in Les Miserables, The King in The King & I (Weston Playhouse); Frog in A Year with Frog & Toad (Chicago Children’s Theatre); Narrator in La Posada Magica (Teatro Vista); El Gallo in The Fantasticks (East West Players); Reciter in Pacific Overtures (Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Donmar Warehouse, UK). Also appeared at Ravinia Festival, American Theater Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and East West Players. 

Film/TV credits: Contagion (2011), Formosa Betrayed (2009) and Columbus (2017)
Awards: Jeff Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Musical: Miss Saigon (2009), Pacific Overtures (2001). 

Training: BA in Music, San Jose State University.
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