Joy Joseph

Joy Joseph is a play write, director, actress, former dancer, drama coach, newspaper columnist and mother of eight. Raised in New Jersey, she studied dancing and drama from a very early age. She has been writing and directing plays and occasionally making appearances for the past twenty-eight years. A suburban theater group, founded by Joseph, has recently celebrated twenty-five years of performing. Along with this busy schedule, she also taught drama classes at a Catholic grammar school for eighteen of those years, reaching all grades from first to eighth. Each year culminated with a “Graduation Play” directed by Joseph For several years she also wrote a newspaper column for a Chicago Suburban newspaper as well as penning several short stories. She and her late husband, Lou Joseph, a science writer and media specialist raised their eight children in suburban Chicago where she has lived for the past forty-eight years.