Biography
Joe grew up in Pittsburgh, PA (That's the Burgh's skyline at the top of this webpage). He started playing football at the age of seven. That year, a football player by the name of Lynn Swann was a receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Joe's hero. Swann took ballet to improve his skills. So did Joe. When Joe's football career was cut short in the seventh grade by a shoulder injury, he continued dancing. At age eleven, he was cast as a Lost Boy in a production of Peter Pan. Joe found his true love for theater when the high school girls playing the Indians in the show
flirted with him. He's been there ever since.
He still dances. Occasionally.
Joe began his LA theater career with the Zoo District theater company, and has since worked with Sacred Fools, Circle X, The Powerhouse, the Met Theater, The Evidence Room, and Orphean Circus. Productions with these companies include Nosferatu, The Master and Margarita, Pathe' X, The Lively Lad, The Bloody Chamber, The Dadaists, The Shaggs, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Gorey Stories, The 99 Cent Only Show and Laura Comstock's Bag Punching Dog, for which he won the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Comedy Performance. Joe played Sharik in Heart of a Dog, a performance which the LA Weekly called one of the top ten moments on stage of 2004. He will reprise the role this summer in Scotland at the Edinburough Theater Festival. His most recent credits include two shows with the Center Theatre Group: Animal Logic and Nighthawks at the Kirk Douglas Theater. Joe is the cofounder of The Future Stars of Hollywood and Associates, creators of the critically acclaimed two man show Go True West and the award winning film Les Superficiales. He has appeared on such TV shows as Gilmore Girls, Baby Bob, and Off Centre as well as numerous independent films and commercials.