Biography
Joey Madia is a playwright, teaching artist, director, and actor.
He is the Artistic Director/Resident Playwright of Seven Stories Theatre Company, Inc. and Resident Playwright at Youth Stages, LLC. He has appeared in or directed over 80 plays. He specializes in social justice theatre and participatory plays for youth. His 17 plays for young audiences have been produced across the United States and his series of books on using theatre in the classroom (The Stage Learning Series, Accompany Publishing, 2007) are helping teachers redefine learning. He has written and performed pieces about Civil War captains Louis Emilio and Thomas Maulsby.
As a teaching-artist he has worked with, taught, and mentored thousands of students in both theatre and creative writing and has spoken at many schools and national conferences. He specializes in working with young students and performers to develop new works in the classroom and for public performance as well as helping teachers integrate the Arts into their classrooms. He has worked with organizations including The Epilepsy Foundation of NJ and Camp NOVA to bring theatre to students with disabilities and has won three writing awards from VSA of NJ.
His poetry, essays, and short stories have been widely published and have earned him several awards. His first novel, Jester-Knight, was published in February of 2009. He is a book and music reviewer and the founding editor of newmystics.com, an art and literary site.
