Film & Television Acting
Justin has starred in (critically acclaimed!) supporting roles such as Gabe Mitchell in the 2014 Sundance Special Jury Award Winner DEAR WHITE PEOPLE opposite Tessa Thompson and as the prematurely doomed Tommy Kinkle in Netflix’ CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA opposite Ross Lynch and Kiernan Shipka.
He was the lead in the (critically panned!) independent movies GET THE GIRL and WE LOVE YOU from Orion Pictures and Awesomeness Films respectively, as well as the SoulPancake series pilot HOLLYWOOD & VINE from producer Rainn Wilson.
He also guest starred as Josh in the Comedy Central hit series BROAD CITY opposite Illana Glazer and recurred as the cutthroat talent manager Wallace on the short-lived Fullscreen dance drama MAKING MOVES.
Additionally he has appeared in a steady stream of national commercials for companies such as Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Toyota, CarMax, Amica Insurance, Bud Light, Buffalo Wild Wings, McDonalds, Navy Federal Credit Union, and NFL Madden.
Stunts!
Justin Dobies is a SAG award-winning stunt performer who has been choreographing fights for theater and film since 2004. While training at Yale, he served as fight director for over 30 theatrical productions in addition to crafting his own program of study with courses such as A Critical History of Stage Combat and Towards a Poetics of Theatrical Combat with Dr. Daniel Larlham.
He has taught stage combat workshops at academic institutions and served as the fight director for numerous theatrical organizations.
In the film world, he most recently performed stunts on the upcoming OBI-WAN KENOBI series, LOKI, and AVENGERS: ENDGAME, in addition to working as the stunt department administrator on OBI-WAN KENOBI.
Justin’s Fight Choreography Photographed in The New York Times
“Justin’s fight choreography is brilliant — psychologically acute, various, and exciting. The sequences he devised for the gladiator scenes in our opera Scipione Affricano were revelatory of character as well as terrifying. Last spring in late rehearsals of the melee of Ulysses slaughtering the suitors in the Monteverdi opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria I also saw that Justin’s supple responsiveness to the actors’ work deepened and clarified the very story. He was a wonderful collaborator.””
— TONI DORFMAN, DIRECTOR OF YALE UNDERGRADUATE THEATER DEPARTMENT
“I’ve not worked with a more agile, graceful actor, or a more generous collaborator.” ”
— DEB MARGOLIN, OBIE AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR
