Joe (he/him/they/them) is a playwright, director, educator, actor, cabaret performer, and he used to be a stage manager until he finally realized that he simply is not organized enough.
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.
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, and of course, over Zoom.
His latest plays are new adaptations of Euripides with THESE WOMEN OF TROY and Molière with THE SWEEPSTAKES GENTLEMAN.
He also wrote the book TODAY IN HISTORY: MUSICALS and numerous articles and columns for Writer’s Digest and Personal Journaling.