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Josh currently serves as Associate Professor and Head of the Musical Theatre BFA program at Cal State University, Fullerton (just outside of Los Angeles).
He previously taught Auditioning for Musical Theatre, Business of Theatre, Beginning and Intermediate Musical Theatre Techniques, Beginning Acting, and Musical Theatre Scene Study at Fullerton College and Loyola Marymount University.
As a workshop facilitator and professional mentor, Josh has collaborated with students of all ages, all across the country, including: the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Boston Conservatory, Hollins University, Arizona State University: Tempe, University of Utah, Emerson College, AMDA: Los Angeles, Fullerton College, Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles) and countless high schools and private acting/musical theatre studios.
In the digital age, hosting a masterclass couldn't be easier. Josh works in collaboration with Broadway Plus to offer affordable, accessible workshops on acting, musical theatre, audition technique, acting for film/TV, career development, directing, or Q&A's.
Josh has offered private coachings and mentorship to students in New York and Los Angeles for over a decade.
Today, Josh works in collaboration with Broadway Plus to offer affordable, accessible coaching sessions for actors, directors, and theatre enthusiasts from the comfort of their own homes.
When local studios are able to safely reopen, Josh is happy to continue offering live local coachings in and around the Los Angeles area. For this option, please contact Josh directly using the form below.
MFA in Performance Pedagogy from Loyola Marymount University
BFA in Musical Theatre from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music
Diploma in Drama from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Online Teaching Certification (via OLC), California
Certified in the principles of Somatic Voicework™ (the LoVetri Method) for singers of Contemporary Commercial Music.
Actor's Equity Association (AEA) since 2004
Currently serving as Western Principal Delegate to the AEA national convention, 2020-2022.
SAG-AFTRA since 2006
Musical Theatre Educators Alliance (MTEA)
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
College Student Educators International (ACPA)
Artistic Council member of Project Shaw (NYC)
"I really love this class and professor. I feel much more confident in my passion and skillset for theatre."
"I always look forward to Josh's class, and I have grown as a performer because of the things I've learned."
"Phenomenal. It’s a really comfortable and enjoyable learning environment."
"It's very hard for me to sing in front of people. This space makes me feel like it's okay to mess up because I know everyone will be there cheering me on and supporting me no matter what."
"He is always kind, prepared, and he inspires me to be the best that I can be. I feel safe to put myself out there and to share my life with my peers because he's allowed for this safe space to be created."
"I was very nervous about joining the MT department because I felt like I wasn't good enough to be in it, but this class has shown me that I am worthy, and makes me feel like I'm doing something right."
"Josh is a cross between Seth Meyers and Dumbledore."
"I feel so confident and safe when performing. Thank you, Josh, for creating a safe space for all of us."
"Mr. Grisetti has been nothing but a phenom!"
* All testimonials are submitted anonymously.


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THERE’S nothing better than pyjamas on a cold day, especially when you’re wearing them for a good cause.
Every year, Swan View child care centre Little People’s Retreat celebrates National Pyjama Day to support the Pyjama Foundation.
The Foundation supports the dreams of kids living in foster care, helping them reach their full potential by assisting them with their learning, and by providing consistent love and support.
The Pyjama Foundation’s Love of Learning program, volunteers called ‘Pyjama Angels’ are recruited, screened, trained and then matched with a child in care to spend time with them once a week, focusing on learning-based activities.
The Swan View children donated a gold coin to wear their pyjamas to the Little People’s Retreat, and manager Genevieve Menage said the children were more than happy to help.
“They understand the money is going towards a really good cause so their parents are more than happy to pitch in with a gold coin,” she said.
“The children really enjoy wearing their pyjamas for the cause.”

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Special event set for Wednesday in NY Mills
By Kathryn Wilkowski
The kickoff to the summer reading program begins on Wednesday, June 29 with live music from The Jolly Pops at the New York Mills City Hall Ballroom.
Starting at 3 p.m., a few happy dads will be performing upbeat, original music for a family concert to please both kids and adults alike, singing about alligators dancing, popsicles, trains, and pet dinosaurs.
No pre registration required, and fun for all ages.
Following the kickoff, the library is hosting a summer reading challenge and summer story time for kids Pre-K through grade 4 in July.
As a wrap up for the summer, starting at 1 p.m., a family film of “A Goofy Movie” is being shown on Thursday, August 4.
Local residents can contact the New York Mills Public Library (218) 385- 2436 on more information about these activities.

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J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam., June 2023, Volume 18, Issue 6
J. Mechanisms Robotics, June 2023, Volume 15, Issue 3
Guest Editors: Andreas Mueller, Jozsef Kovecses, Charles Kim, Chandramouli Padmanabhan, and Gabor Orosz
Robots are complex controlled dynamical systems interacting with their environment. Agile robotic systems have been penetrating almost all industrial sectors as the backbone for industrial automation, ranging from heavy duty manipulators to collaborative robots (cobots) and mobile platforms for logistics tasks. Currently, autonomous vehicles (e.g., cars, mobile delivery systems, drones, inspection, and maintenance) are entering the public sector, but also the use of surgical robots is becoming an integral part of medical treatments. In a foreseeable future, assistive robots for domestic use will become indispensable for caretaking and as exoskeletal devices providing physical support thus physically interacting with humans. Future robots need to be responsive; they must (inter)act safely, minimize the use of resources (energy, material, process-, development-, and commissioning-time), and adapt to variations in demands and environmental conditions.
Advanced robotic systems are equipped with multimodal sensory systems, and are operated with model-based and model-free control schemes. Yet, the mechanical embodiment is the starting point of any robot design. Key to a reliable design and control of such robots are holistic design approaches embracing kinematic synthesis, dynamic analysis, control, sensory perception, and adaptability. Novel mechanical design principles, combining high-fidelity kinematic and dynamic models with data-driven methods, are applied along with model-free machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The foundation is a synergetic combination of research in mechanism theory and dynamical systems and control.
This joint special issue of the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR) and the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) aims to bridge between these research fields and to bring together the latest research on robot kinematics and dynamics as well as intelligent control and data-driven methods for perception, planning, model identification, and control.
This joint special issue is a collection of 13 papers published in JMR and 10 papers published in JCND, respectively. The papers published in JMR address several of the main research topics in robot design, namely the design and control of agile and compliant robots intended for robust and safe interaction with its environment. The paper “Design, Calibration, and Control of Compliant Force-Sensing Gripping Pads for Humanoid Robots” introduces low-cost, lightweight, and compliant force-sensing gripping pads that enable smaller-sized humanoid robots to manipulate box-like objects. In “Dyno-Kinematic Leg Design for High Energy Robotic Locomotion,” technique for leg design for high energy robotic locomotion is presented that encodes desired dynamic features into the mechanical design. In the paper “Emerging Gaits for a Quadrupedal Template Model with Segmented Legs,” the gait stability of quadrupedal robots with articulated elastic legs is studied. The two papers “Stable Inverse Dynamics for Feedforward Control of Nonminimum-Phase Underactuated Systems” and “Experimental Safety Analysis of R-Min, an Underactuated Parallel Robot” deal with the operation of underactuated robots. In both papers, underactuation stems from the presence of compliant elements. Moreover, introducing compliance is becoming an important design approach which is the topic of the three papers “Kinetostatic Modeling of Continuum Delta Robot With Variable Curvature Continuum Joints,” “Design and Modeling Framework for DexTeR: Dexterous Continuum Tensegrity Manipulator,” and “Analysis of a Soft Bio-Inspired Active Actuation Model for the Design of Artificial Vocal Folds.” While the first two papers address the design of robots that make use of inherently flexible components, the last paper exploits the compliance to mimic a biological system. Mechanical compliance is also the crucial feature exploited in the two papers “Flexible Long-Reach Robotic Limbs Using Tape Springs for Mobility and Manipulation” and “Control of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuated Two Degrees-of-Freedom Robot Using PD-Based Pulse Width Modulation Strategy With Feed-Forward Outer Control Loop.” The first proposes an innovative actuation concept while the second proposes a novel control strategy for the established concept of pneumatic artificial muscles. A bio-inspired approach to modulating the compliance of a robot is presented in “Variable Stiffness and Antagonist Actuation for Cable-Driven Manipulators Inspired by the Bird Neck.” The paper “Robust Attitude Controller Design for an Uncommon Quadrotor With Big and Small Tilt Rotors” presents the modeling and robust control of a quadrotor UAV. The design innovation paper “Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Control of Stewart Platform With Parametric Simulation in ROS and Gazebo” presents a control method that uses a dynamics simulation for training deep network to control a parallel kinematics manipulator.
The collection published in JCND has focused on assistive robots and on design and control of soft underactuated systems. The paper “Energy-Efficient Actuator Design Principles for Robotic Leg Prostheses and Exoskeletons: A Review of Series Elasticity and Backdrivability” provides an exhaustive overview of design principles for actuators used in prosthetic robotic systems. The important issue of using EMG for control of assistive devices is addressed in “Feasibility Study of Upper Limb Control Method Based on Electromyography-Angle Relation.” A new design concept for a prosthetic hand is presented in the paper “Novel Kinematics of an Anthropomorphic Prosthetic Hand Allowing Lateral and Opposite Grasp With a Single Actuator.” Designing and controlling robots to display a desired compliance is relevant in various applications. The design of inherently soft robots that can reconfigure to different shapes is presented in “Topology Design and Optimization of Modular Soft Robots Capable of Homogenous and Heterogenous Reconfiguration.” Compliance control of a space robot is addressed in the paper “FSTSMC Compliance Control for Dual-Arm Space Robot with SDBD Capture Satellite Operation.” The control of an underactuated flying robot with elastic attachments is presented in the paper “Design of a Sliding Mode-Adaptive PID Control for Aerial Systems with a Suspended Load Exposed to Wind Gusts.” The paper “Mechanical Design, Planning, and Control for Legged Robots in Distillation Columns” addresses the design of a dedicated arm mounted on a quadrupedal robot and the control of the system when navigating in narrow environments. The paper “Delay Effects in the Dynamics of Human Controlled Towing of Vehicles” investigates the stability of a control system representing the behavior of vehicle towing. Another paper dealing with control of underactuated robots is “Variational Principles for the Trajectory Tracking Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems,” where underactuation is again due to the existence of elastic components in the robot. A crucial aspect of all simulation models, namely to calibration of existing models and the model reduction, is addressed in the paper “Using a Bayesian-Inference Approach to Calibrating Models for Simulation in Robotics.”
The spectrum of contributions collected in this joint special issue by researchers from different fields is testimony to the importance of combining research in mechanical design, non-linear control, and dynamics simulation embracing modern methods from mechanism theory, non-linear dynamics, and control, as well as model-free data-driven approaches.
We thank the authors who have submitted their work to this special issue, and the many reviewers that provided valuable peer review. We also thank Venkat Krovi, editor of the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and to Bogdan Epureanu, editor of the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, who supported this special issue. Special thanks go to Amy Suski for her tireless support during all steps of the preparation, review, and production process.
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Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times now online
My short film Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times reached over 60 film festivals around the world (mainly in 2018) and won nearly a third of those for best short film - either voted for by a jury or by the audience. See the full list of festivals at the bottom of this post.
Winning the audience award for the best short at Dinard in France was a highlight. Dinard is a special place. It's a unique festival in that it showcases only British films but the French love it and the attendance and interest is significant. It's also a beautiful tourist destination with a gorgeous coastline. In the run up to a toxic Brexit, the timing of this film was good.
It's IMDB listing is here for the details of the cast and crew.
It has touched so many people and is continuing to do so. I shared it on the Papadopoulos & Sons Facebook page and it was re-shared 100s of times.
Facebook love for Two Strangers here. Go to the the pinned post at the top and then scroll down the comments.
Constantine, my 10 year old son, asked to see these Facebook comments. In his words and to his surprise, he noted the absence of negative comments. "There's no hate here", he noted.
Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times screened at the following festivals throughout 2017 and 2018 - winning the following awards.
Los Angeles Film Awards Paris Play Film Festival – WINNER BEST SHORT LA Shorts Awards Mindfield Film Festival, Albuquerque – WINNER BEST SHORT San Luis Obispo International Film Festival – WINNER BEST NARRATIVE SHORT New Jersey International Film Festival Chandler International Film Festival European Independent Film Award Jaipur International Film Festival Beaufort International Film Festival Irvine International Film Festival San Francisco Independent Film Festival Sedona International Film Festival Boulder International Film Festival Newcastle Film Festival Taos Shortz Film Fest – WINNER PEOPLE’S CHOICE Omaha Film Festival – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM Norwegian International Seagull Short film Festival SHORT TO THE POINT International Short Film Festival Awards – WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY ANNUAL AWARDS Beeston Film Festival – WINNER BEST DRAMATIC SHORT Glass City Film Festival Maryland International Film Festival – WINNER BEST SHORT FILM Sunscreen Film Festival – WINNER JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM Julien Dubuque International Film Festival Arizona International Film Festival Solar Cinema Malta Heartland Indy Shorts Film Festival Self Propelled Short Film Festival Newport Beach Film Festival Ocean Coast Film Festival Sioux Empire Film Festival Hoboken International Film Festival The Long Island International Film Expo – WINNER BEST FOREIGN SHORT London Greek Film Festival New Media Film Festival – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD Prescott Film Festival – WINNER JURY AWARD, BEST NARRATIVE SHORT Kiev International Film Festival Woods Hole Film Festival – WINNER BEST SHORT, DRAMA SouthSide Film Festival St Albans Film Festival WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival Mexico City Independent Film Fest Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival – WINNER BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, DRAMA Indie Street Film Festival Dinard Film Festival – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD Manhattan Short Film Festival – WINNER (Gold Medal) International Short Film Festival of Cyprus San Jose International Short Film Festival - WINNER Vasteras Film Festival Byron Bay Film Festival Royal Starr Film Festival - WINNER, BEST FOREIGN SHORT Birmingham International Film Festival


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Canary Islands: After two days enjoying the sun and friendly training for iQFoilers, finally the winds of Lanzarote offered perfect conditions to launch the Lanzarote International Regatta.
Winds ranged from 10-16 knots, with flat sea with little wave, spectacular for slalom racing. The third day started with the men’s races, led by the Dutch Huig Jan Tak, who won three out of three slalom races, and a ninth place in the course race. “It was a very long day, but for me it was fun, with good speed, starts and tactics,” said the Dutch sailor.
Second place in the overall classification is held by Israel’s Yoav Omer, followed by Brit Matthew Barton.
In the Spanish entries, the Canary Islander Angel Granda stood out. He remains in the top 15, but will need to be in the top 10 to be able to compete in the medal race.
“Today we have been in the water for a long time, I had good starts, but I lacked speed,” Granda said. For the Canarian sailor, the change to the iQFoil class has been “quite hard”, since in the RS:X you should weigh over 70 kilos, but the iQFoil requires you to weigh between 90 and 100 kilos. “The heavier you weigh, the faster you go, since you put more power to the foil,” Granda said. “The Canary Islands is one of the best places to practice sailing, we are already seeing it here with so many competitors in Marina Rubicón.”
In the women’s iQFoil division, it is England’s Islay Watson whose dominating the classification, followed by the French Lola Sorin and the Italian Marta Maggetti. And the weather in Lanzarote has surprised the sailors, after a morning sailing calmly in zigzag, the wind shifted from the northeast to north, so it become a very unstable onshore wind, causing many disqualifications. Local favourite, Andalusian Pilar Lamadrid, who, despite a disqualification in the first race, managed to stay in eighth place.
For the men and women’s iQFoil finals this Tuesday, two more course races are planned, in addition to the medal races. “We need six races completed before the medal race,” explained Alejandro de Juan González, secretary of the Canarian Sailing Federation.
The Canarian Sailing Federation organised the Lanzarote International Regatta together with Marina Rubicón and Dinghycoach.
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