Joël is a Black Mormon (yes, really), actress, writer, librettist and lyricist. Her musical "2&1: A Harlem Musical with Loose Morals" with composer Jenna Gillespie Byrd, was a 2023 Eugene O’Neill Finalist and a 2022 Relentless Award Honorable Mention. Her musical "Flophouse" with co-writer Justin Anthony Long and composer Joanna Burns was a 2023 Rhinebeck Finalist. In 2024 her 10-minute play "Ethel and Ethel" had its world premiere at the Obie Award Winning, The Fire This Time Festival. She wrote and starred in, "Crazy with a K!" , a web series comedically depicting her mental health struggles and she is a co-writer on the upcoming, "Animus" for AfterShock Comics. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, The Dramatists Guild of America, Actors’ Equity Association...
Joël is a Black Mormon (yes, really), actress, writer, librettist and lyricist. Her musical "2&1: A Harlem Musical with Loose Morals" with composer Jenna Gillespie Byrd, was a 2023 Eugene O’Neill Finalist and a 2022 Relentless Award Honorable Mention. Her musical "Flophouse" with co-writer Justin Anthony Long and composer Joanna Burns was a 2023 Rhinebeck Finalist. In 2024 her 10-minute play "Ethel and Ethel" had its world premiere at the Obie Award Winning, The Fire This Time Festival. She wrote and starred in, "Crazy with a K!" , a web series comedically depicting her mental health struggles and she is a co-writer on the upcoming, "Animus" for AfterShock Comics. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, The Dramatists Guild of America, Actors’ Equity Association and a founding member of UNTITLED Musical Writers Group. She loves Agatha Christie, Batman and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", much to the chagrin of her grown sons and her husband, whom she recently remarried...for the third time. (Yes, really).