Oh, and I really like musicals.
Joey began designing lights as a teenager for theatre and dance performances at the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts at Culver City High School and for dee-Lightful productions, children’s theatre. He then graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology where he continued to design theatre and dance and developed an interest in production management and producing. After graduating he moved to Los Angeles to truly begin a professional career.
Early in his career he designed frequently in the solo-performance space, creating shows with performance artists Kristina Wong, Diana Wyenn, Lisa Dring and many others.
In 2017 he co-founded The Attic Collective and served as Associate Artistic Director from 2017 to 2021. The Last Croissant which he designed and produced was awarded the Top of the Fringe and Best Ensemble Award by the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2019.
Joey was of the resident designers at the Rockwell Table and Stage where he designed numerous raucous musicals sending up classic Hollywood hits such as Hocus Pocus and IT, which received the 2019 Ovation Award for Best Large Musical. He also designed all productions of Bradley Bredeweg’s Scissorhands at The Rockwell.
In 2018 Joey joined LA Dance Project as Lighting Director and began touring contemporary ballet around the world with significant productions at the Luma Foundation in Arles, France, and multiple world premieres at The Theatre des Champs Elysee in Paris. He designed the rolling world premiere of Benjamin Millipede’s Bach Studies Pt. 1.
Also in 2018 Joey became an Associate Artist at Rogue Artist’s Ensemble after designing their hallmark production Woodboy Dogfish in Los Angeles. J
Joey continued to light dance in Los Angeles becoming the resident designer at Mashup Contemporary Dance Company in 2019.
After a 2 year hiatus (selling desserts out of my home kitchen; general panic about the future of life itself) Joey re-started his work in theatre and dance, and branched out to music as well. Joey started touring with the legendary Kronos Quartet and Memphis-based Collage Dance Collective in 2022.
Throughout his career Joey has worked at educational institutions as an instructor and guest designer. Recent collegiate level productions include The Music Man at Pepperdine University and Into the Woods at Occidental College. At the high school level his productions of Peter and the Starcatcher and The Pliant Girls at Notre Dame High School were selected as the best high school level show in Los Angeles County by the California Educational Theatre Association.
