Biografia
Writer, producer, actor, and director.
Affiliations include the Writers Guild of America West, Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio.
Stage acting credits feature: Sweet Bird of Youth, supporting role alongside Ed Harris (Dynarski Theatre); 69 Degrees Below, lead role 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); and Umpires (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute).
Education includes writing seminars with Robert McKee (Story Seminar), Elise Dewsberry, John Sparks, and Scott Guy (Academy for New Musical Theatre). Acting training with The Actors Studio moderators Lee Strasberg, Marty Landau, Shelley Winters, Mark Rydell, and Ellen Burstyn; Harold Clurman (Seminar); Stella Adler; Dominique DeFazio (Strasberg Theatre Institute); and a BS in Mass Communications from Florida State University.
Awarded an Emmy for Best Information Series (Los Angeles area) for Health Fax as Coordinating Producer in 1989. Emmy nominations include What A Year (Best Primetime Special, LA area), Emergency Room Crisis (Best Social Issues Special, LA area), and "Steroids" (Best Information Segment - Health Fax, LA area).
Joel is married to actress Gina Gallego. They have a son, Brendan E. Bailey.
