Josh Piterman

Josh Piterman is a singer, actor, podcaster and speaker and the first Australian to play both the roles of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and The Phantom in the brilliant original production of The Phantom of the Opera on London’s West End. 

His other major theatrical credits include: The Phantom in the Phantom of the Opera, Australia 2022/23, Tony in the 2010 Australian production of West Side Story, Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger in the 2015/16 Australian season of Cats (a role that won him the Green Room Award for best supporting actor in a Musical), Corny Collins in the UK tour of Hairspray and Gerry Goffin in the 2017/18 Australian tour of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.   

Josh has also performed at an array of events, concerts and TV performances including; Performance of a Lifetime with the MSO at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Carols By Candlelight, the Australia Day Live Concert outside the Sydney Opera House, the National Anthem at the MCG Boxing Day Test, The Sydney New Years Test, The Bledisloe Cup and The State of Origin, and he wowed audiences with his performance of Music of the Night at The Australian Open Tennis Finals. 

In 2018 his debut self-titled album went to #1 on both the Aria and iTunes Charts (Classical Crossover) in Australia. 

Josh is a proud ambassador for the Western Bulldogs Community Foundation, Polished Man and My Room Children’s Cancer Charity. He is currently a board member of the Arts Centre Melbourne Contemporary Foundation. 

 Josh has worn many masks off and onstage but as a student of life and with a constant growth mindset he has always been fascinated and curious about what’s happening behind the masks we wear both individually and collectively as a society. His Self Improvement podcast “Behind The Mask” invites an array of extraordinary guests to take a deep dive into the spaces that often go unseen.