Joe Mazza is a playwright, performer and puppet creator. His first play, The Ubi Complex, was produced at The New Ehrlich Theater, Boston, in 1991, followed by The Package Deal in 1996 at the Little Flags Theater, Cambridge. New England’s Bay Windows called The Package Deal “hilariously over the top… a broad, ferocious satire of the American Dream."

He was one of four core writers of Cat Box Cabaret for 6 years, writing and performing original works on a weekly basis. In addition to the weekly cabaret, Joe collaborated with Cat Box on the epic serial, Once Upon A Time In The Decline Of The West, which the Boston Globe called “...intelligent lunacy...from the wildly hilarious to the deadly serious.”

His play, XXX, for one actor and puppets, was produced at the Boston Center for the Arts in 1999, followed by a second sold-out run at the Theater Cooperative in January of 2000. The South End News called XXX “a bizarrely entertaining and provocative must-see...[that] brilliantly defies classification.”

Since moving to Chicago in 2005, Joe has presented a reading of his play Art and her Ugly Sisters and performed in four independent films and 2 staged readings. He is a recipient of a 2007 Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Joe looks forward to working on his next project, a production with Redmoon Theater.

More information at www.joemazza.org