Huck & Holden 
World premiere: Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC, Jan. 2006
Director: Giovanna Sardelli
Based on Joseph’s father's experiences coming to the United States.

• Time Out NY review (Feb. 2006)
• LA Times review (Oct. 2006)

All This Intimacy
World premiere: Off-Broadway, Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series, Jul. 2006
Director: Giovanna Sardelli

• NY Times review

The Leopard and the Fox
World premiere: Off-off-Broadway, TBG Theatre at The Barrow Group, Oct. 2007
Director: Giovanna Sardelli

• NY Times Review

Animals Out of Paper
World premiere: Off-Broadway, Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series, NYC; Aug. 2008
Director: Giovanna Sardelli

• NY Times review
• SF Chronicle review

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
World premiere: Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, CA; May, 2009
Director: Moisés Kaufman

• LA Times review (premiere)
• NY Times review (May 2010 at the Mark Taper Forum)
• Broadway NY Times review (March 2011 at the Richard Rogers Theatre)
• SF Chronicle review (Oct. 2013 at the SF Playhouse)

Gruesome Playground Injuries
World premiere: Alley Theatre in Houston, TX; Oct. 2009
Director: Rebecca Teichman; starring Selma Blair and Brad Fleischer

• Houston Chronicle review (premiere)
• NY Times review (Jan. 2011 at Second Stage)

The North Pool
World premiere: TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA; March 2011.
Director: Giovanna Sardelli

• SF Chronicle review (premiere)
• NY Times review (March 2013, Off-off Broadway at Vineyard Theatre, NYC)

The Monster at the Door
World premiere: Alley Theatre, Houston, TX; May 2011
Director: Daniella Topol

• LA Weekly review

The Lake Effect
Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work
World premiere: Silk Road Rising, Chicago, IL; May 2013.
Director: Timothy Douglas

• Chicago Reader review (premiere)
• SF Chronicle review (March 2015 at TheatreWorks)

Fly
World premiere: Dallas Theatre Center, Dallas, TX; Jul. 2013
Director: Jeffrey Seller, Tony winner (Rent, Avenue Q)
Choreographer: Andy Blankenbuehler, Tony winner (In the Heights)
Book: Rajiv Joseph; music: Bill Sherman (Sesame Street); lyrics: Rajiv Joseph and Kirsten Childs

• Dallas Observer review

Guards at the Taj
Obie Awards, Best New American Play and Performance (Omar Metwally and Arian Moayed); Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Scenic Design, Outstanding Lighting Design, and Outstanding Sound Design; Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award
World premiere: Off-Broadway, Atlantic Theater Company, NYC; Jun. 2015
Director: Amy Morton

• NY Times review

In Your Arms (co-writer)
World premiere: Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA; Sep. 2015
Director and Choreograper: Christopher Gattelli
Lyricist: Lynn Ahrens
Music: Stephen Flaherty
Vignettes by Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, and Alfred Uhry

• LA Times review

Mr. Wolf
World premiere: South Coast Repertory Theatre, Costa Mesa, CA; Apr. 2015
Director: David Emmes

• LA Times review