Joe Langworth

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Joe Langworth (born July 19, 1966) is an American casting director, singer and dancer.

From 1990 - 2005, Langworth appeared in a number of major Broadway musicals, including the closing company of the original production of A Chorus Line, the Tony Award-winning production of Ragtime with Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell, and the 2001 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. He was also assistant dance captain of the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.

He grew up in Port Chester, NY and attended the State University of New York at Geneseo, where he studied communications.

In 2006, Langworth retired from performing to join the New York-based casting agency, Bernard Telsey Casting, Inc. The Telsey agency has supplied casts for Broadway productions like Rent, The Color Purple, Wicked, Legally Blonde and The Drowsy Chaperone. In a February 26, 2006 article in the New York Times entitled "Far From the Spotlight, the True Powers of Broadway," ^[1]Jesse McKinley named it one of the premier casting agencies in New York. At Telsey, Langworth is responsible for casting Broadway musicals, most notably the first Broadway revival of South Pacific opening at the Lincoln Center Theater in April 2008 and starring Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot and Loretta Ables Sayre.

His partner is James Matthew Jones, a leading global public health consultant who served as press secretary to Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and as executive vice president of The Vaccine Fund, a multi-billion dollar charity founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.