Joe Waechter
Joe Waechter is a playwright and screenwriter living in Los Angeles.
His plays include: The Hidden People, PROFILES, Lake Untersee, Good Ol Boys, and The Strangler. His work has been developed with or produced by Playwrights Horizons, Guthrie Theatre, Ars Nova, American Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference...
Joe Waechter is a playwright and screenwriter living in Los Angeles.
His plays include: The Hidden People, PROFILES, Lake Untersee, Good Ol Boys, and The Strangler. His work has been developed with or produced by Playwrights Horizons, Guthrie Theatre, Ars Nova, American Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, PlayPenn, Red Eye Theatre, Workhaus Collective, and the Inkwell, among others. Awards include the AracaWorks Graduate Playwriting Prize, Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and a McKnight Advancement Grant and two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center, where he was also a Core Writer and served on the Board of Directors. He has been a resident artist at Hangar Theatre, Tofte Lake Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm (member of Working Farm writers group), and on board an ice-class sailboat the Antigua for The Arctic Circle residency in summer 2014. Joe is currently under commission by Berkeley Repertory Theatre to write BREAKAWAY, a play about fantasy, sexuality, and masculinity in the world of Minnesota high school hockey.
Joe also writes for other medium, including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and other experimental modes of performance. His headphone operas "Howard Gap Road" and "The Hoot Owl" have been performed around the world and received several awards. In collaboration with interactive producers Tender Claws, Joe wrote on the VR game, "Virtual, Virtual Reality" (winner of the Google Play Award for Best Experience), developed and wrote an artificial-intelligence app, "tendAR" (premiere, 2018 Sundance New Frontiers). He also wrote the forthcoming VR music composition project for Within with OkGo, "Lambchild Superstar" and created an AR intergalactic educational experience for kids, "Clio's Cosmic Quest" for Within's Wonderscope technology.
M.F.A. Brown University