Biography
Writer, producer, actor, director.
Affiliations: Writers Guild of America West, Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The Actors Studio-Lifetime Member.
Stage credits (actor) include: Sweet Bird Of Youth, supporting with Ed Harris (Dynarski Theatre), 69 Degrees Below, lead with John Laroquette (Powerhouse Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, lead with Delta Burke (Stage Seventy-five), The Rose Tattoo, supporting with Karen Kondazian and Leo Rossi (Beverly Hills Playhouse), Hostile Terrain, lead with Angel Salazar (The Circle Theatre), Trendy Amour, lead with Savannah Smith (The Actors Studio West, workshop), The Strange Case Of The Tenacious Suitcase, lead with Michael Sabatino (Pilot Theatre), Botticelli lead (Actors Studio West, workshop), Blues For Mister Charlie, supporting (Odeon Theatre), In the Boom Boom Room (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, workshop), Umpires (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute)
Education: Writing: Robert McKee (Story Seminar), Elise Dewsberry, John Sparks, Scott Guy, (Academy for New Musical Theatre). Acting: The Actors Studio moderators: Lee Strasberg, Marty Landau, Shelley Winters, Mark Rydell, Ellen Burstyn. Harold Clurman (Seminar), Stella Adler, and Dominique DeFazio (Strasberg Theatre Institute), Florida State University (BS Mass Communications).
Emmy Award for Best Information series (Los Angeles area)- Health Fax (Coordinating Producer, 1989). Emmy nominations: What A Year (Best Primetime Special, LA area), Emergency Room Crisis (Best Social Issues Special, LA area), "Steroids" (Best Information Segment- Health Fax, LA area).
Joel is married to actor Gina Gallego. Their son together is Brendan E. Bailey.
