Joe (he/they) is a playwright, director, educator, actor, and cabaret performer.
His work as a playwright and all other areas of theatre focus on 1) creating more and better roles for women, 2) a feminist and queer aesthetic, 3) playful metatheatricality, and 4) humor, even in the tragic.
Joe’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE was professionally produced at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Know Theatre in Cincinnati, The World’s Stage in Milwaukee, and Curio Theatre in Philadelphia, prior to temporary withdrawal of the rights due to the Hulu series.
THESE WOMEN OF TROY, Joe’s new adaptation of Euripides, premiered at the University of South Dakota in 2022. He directed his original plays CATALINA and NINE SHORT PLAYS FOR THE THEATRE at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. His plays have also been workshopped at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, Indiana University, the University of South Dakota, The Old Lumber Company, and of course, over Zoom.
He also wrote the book TODAY IN HISTORY: MUSICALS and numerous articles and columns for Writer’s Digest and Personal Journaling.