Moshe Henderson (he/him/his) is a queer Filipino American stage director, casting director, actor, and singer living in Manhattan. He is currently a Casting Director at HB Studio under Pat Golden’s mentorship. Most recent directing credits include E.G.G.,  A Foray In Innocence – NYTF Best Director Nomination, Dog Sees God, Prairie Fire, Les Blancs, Something Extraordinary Happens, Guns, and Crazy Meshuge Hurricane Earthquake. From Washington state, Moshe led two high school Drama departments and founded Basement Theatrics. With Basement Theatrics he produced and directed Ordinary Days and Spring Awakening: The Musical. Moshe attended Cornish College of the Arts for Musical Theatre and is furthering his studies of Directing and Acting at HB Studio. Moshe also stage manages, most recently Misdemeanor Dream, Stoned to the Wall, and Conjectures of A Guilty Bystander. Select regional acting roles: David (Torch Song Trilogy), Angel (Rent), Albert (Bye Bye Birdie), Peter (The Diary of Anne Frank) and Luis/Lazar (Runaways). 

Moshe was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1996. He attended Raisbeck Aviation High School while earning his art credits at a local youth theatre, The Hi-Liners. There he performed in his first musical Fiddler on the Roof as Fyedka and would continue on to bigger roles such as Jud Fry in Oklahoma!, Macavity in Cats, Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie, Luis/Lazar in Runaways, Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, and Angel in Rent. For his role as Grandpa in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang he was nominated for “Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Local)” by Broadway World Seattle in 2015.

At Village Theatre, he was cast as Ankur Bhatnagar in the staged premiere of Rocket Science and was directed by critically-acclaimed director Steve Tomkins. Moshe then went on to play the role of Peter Van Daan in the Renton Civic Theatre production of The Diary of Anne Frank.

He originated the role of Derek in Gay City Art’s production of When There Were Angels and played several characters in the first stagings of Robert Flor’s Four Short Plays at the Filipino Community Center. After graduating, Moshe led the Drama departments at Raisbeck Aviation High and Mt. Rainier High for two years.

His career as a director began with the four-person musical Ordinary Days, which he also starred in as the role of Warren. The show was produced by his theatre group Basement Theatrics and in partnership with Renton Civic Theatre. It was well received by an audience and had excellent reviews of Moshe’s direction. As founder of Basement Theatrics, Moshe went on to produce Spring Awakening at 12th Avenue Arts in July 2016 to several sold-out houses during its two-week run. He was accredited for his blocking and the use of his simple and effective set design.

He attended Cornish College of the Arts for Musical Theatre in 2017 with a 4.0 GPA and glowing reviews from his instructors. They recognized his focus, dedication, adaptability, and curiosity; and his Text Analysis instructor Timothy McCuen Pigee left him with this remark: “I’m writing a cover letter to you now because one day I’ll be asking you for work. You’re going to be handing out jobs, and I want to be in line for one of those jobs.”

At Cornish, Moshe met Shawn Belyea and Peter Dylan O’Connor who trained him in essential Stage Management. In the summer of 2018, Moshe worked for their non-profit theater 14/48 Projects as a Stage Manager. He also was the Assistant Production Manager and Assistant Stage Manager for the Spiderwoman Theater production of Misdemeanor Dream at the Abrons Arts Center in New York.

In 2019, he moved to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. Within four months, he was hired as a director at the New Yiddish Theater for their Actor’s Equity Showcase of a new play Crazy Meshuge Hurricane Earthquake by Amy Coleman. Sandi Durell’s Theater Pizzazz review: “[Moshe] did an excellent job of making an unusual situation come believably alive.” He served as temporary Managing Director at the New Yiddish Theater for several months.

Moshe is currently enrolled in directing and acting classes at HB Studio. There he directed scenes from Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry and from the play Spring’s Awakening by Frank Wedekind. As AEA staged readings for “The Pat & Julie Project,” a collaboration between the directing, playwrighting, and casting-directing students, Moshe directed Something Extraordinary Happens by Vincent R. Parker and Guns by Ellen DeLisle.  His class was led by writer, director, producer and award-winning casting director Pat Golden.

Moshe is now a Casting Director at HB Studio alongside Sarah Chiriboga under Pat’s mentorship. They’ve cast for HB’s The Art of Directing class plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Betrayal, Frost/Nixon, Havana Is Waiting, The Odd Couple, Angels in America and more. They also have cast Aftershocks – A Tetralogy of Our Times for Conch Shell Productions and are currently casting for the new musical When We Get There set to premiere in Spring 2022.

Moshe was nominated for Winter 2021 Best Director at the New York Theater Festival for A Foray In Innocence by Ronan Colfer, which was also nominated for Best New Play. Moshe made his New-York-stage debut as an actor in February 2022 in the role of Robin Starveling/Mustardseed in the validBodies Arts Project production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Players Theatre Off-Broadway.

Other professionals Moshe has worked with include Michael Beckett, Sheila Daniels, Frances Leah King, Ellen Boyle, Meg McLynn, Marc Kenison, Tony Curry, Vanessa Miller, Nako Claudine Mboligikpelani, Kathleen Edwards, and Michele Bettinger. Moshe did audition prep and monologue studies with Patti Cohenour and Tony Curry. He has worked with musical directors RJ Tancioco, Nathan Young, and Tim Symons and choreographers Daniel Cruz, Amelia Bolyard, Eia Waltzer, Kristen Culp, and Kathryn Tabb.