Joseph Coté’s actor training included work with John Broome, Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford/London); Robert Brustein, American Repertory Theater (“The King Stag”, Boston); Jerome Kilty, Old Globe Theater (San Diego); and Gilles Maheu, Les Enfants du Paradis (Montreal). He has played leading or featured roles in plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Wilde, Sheridan, Moliere, O'Neill, Chekhov, Albee, Brecht, Tennessee Williams and even Neil Simon. Joseph has performed with Shakespeare Festivals in Indiana (Richard II, Parolles), Massachusetts (Edward IV, Earl of Richmond), Idaho (Edgar, Master Ford, Don Armado, Gremio), Colorado (Iago) and California (Malvolio). Following performances in a repertory season of plays at the Denver Center Theater Company, the theater’s solo play on 1944 Swedish diplomat to Budapest, Raoul Wallenberg -- credited with saving over 100,000 Jews -- toured
Budapest, Warsaw and Krakow ending with a performance at Auschwitz. Retiring to mid-coast Maine in 2018, Joseph has performed several roles with Everyman Repertory Theater, Heartwood Regional Theater and the Lincoln Theater.