Joseph Rodrick

Joseph Rodrick is a Swedish-American actor, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist born in Portland, Oregon, to a history teacher and an energy consultant. Following a decorated athletic career in Oregon, he attended Cal Poly Humboldt on a scholarship to study marketing and sociology before leaving traditional academia. They were later offered a residency in the Master’s in Film Directing program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. As a director, actor, and author of the published works New Life and "BOOK", Rodrick writes, directs, and stars in their own films, including Naked Under the Moon (2024) and The Machine (2026), which premiered at Indie Film LA. He also starred in filmmaker Araya Peterson’s project Her Wooden Chair (2024), an official selection at the Chico Independent Film Festival. In fashion, they have walked for New York and Milan Fashion Weeks. Their work appears in campaigns and editorial features for Vogue, Essence, Dazed, Complex, Hypebeast, FLAUNT, WWD, Office Magazine, Hypebae, tmrw Magazine, Pause Magazine, The Perfect Man Magazine, Visual Tales, and L’Effronte Journal.