JOEL STONE was formerly the artistic director of Off-Off Broadway's The Theatre Asylum. On May 17, 1998, his play Horrors of Doctor Moreau (published by Samuel French, Inc.) became the first script-in-hand reading to debut at New Jersey Repertory Company. The following year, his short play The Age of Miracles went on to be a finalist at the Samuel French Short Play Festival. From 2000-2002, he was the Theatre Education Coordinator for the New York City Board/Department of Education. His short plays Doodle-lee Doo and The Hot Roll were published in collections by Smith & Kraus Publishers. In 2014, Joel was the Director/Mentor of the award-winning NJ Rep Young Playwrights Project, “Shelter From The Storm”, in which local high school students wrote short plays about Hurricane Sandy. For the past ten years, he has been an adjunct professor of playwriting at Monmouth University's English department and a teacher of acting and improv for Monmouth's Theater department. He's been the literary manager for NJ Rep since 2014. In 2017, he was commissioned by NJPAC to write The Calling, his first full-length play in decades. His play For the Life of Me had a New Play Brunch reading at B Street Theater on March 13, 2022.