Directing Credits include: Clue: The Musical (Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre – Upcoming), Rock of Ages (Maples Repertory Theatre), The Santaland Diaries (Paper Lantern Theatre Company); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro, Sunday in the Park with George, Next to Normal, Hedda Freeman: a contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Melancholy Play: a chamber musical (WestRep Stage); A New Brain, Melancholy Play: a chamber musical, The Piano Lesson (UNCG School of Theatre); Single Rider (The University of Alabama).

Music Directing Credits include: NYC developmental: The Radium Girls: A Jaw Dropping New Musical, Secondhand Lions.  New York regional: West Side Story, The Producers, Hairspray, Cabaret and Annie Get Your Gun. Other regional: Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George (North Carolina Summer Rep). Damn Yankees, Avenue Q, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Legally Blonde, How to Succeed… (Ocean State Theatre Company). South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Dirty Blonde, A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage). The Fantasticks, [title of show] (Florida Repertory Theatre). Mean Girls (Upcoming), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Chicago (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina). Mamma Mia, Big River, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Annie, The Drowsy Chaperone (Maples Repertory Theatre). Always…Patsy Cline, Ethel Waters’ His Eye is on the Sparrow (Florida Studio Theatre). Little Shop Of Horrors, Something’s Afoot, A Grand Night for Singing (The Schoolhouse Theatre). Church Basement Ladies, Are We There Yet?. The Winter Wonderettes (Prather Entertainment Group). Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Das Barbecü, Songs for a New World, The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee (BIG ARTS Herb Strauss Theatre). The Secret Garden, Into the Woods (The Gallery Players). Zombie Prom, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (North Carolina Theatre Alliance). Caroline, or Change, Heathers, Hairspray, Into the Woods, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, A Year with Frog and Toad, Dani Girl, Cabaret (UNCG School of Theatre). Little Women, Single Rider (University of Alabama). A Little Night Music, The Who’s Tommy, Something Rotten!, Bat Boy: The Musical, Sweeney Todd, and Melancholy Play: a chamber musical (Western Connecticut State University).

Justin holds a Directing Cognate through the MFA Directing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as well as D.M.A. and M.M. degrees in Conducting and a B.A. in Voice.  More info can be found at DirectorCowan.com and ConductorCowan.com.