One of the many difficult things in life to accomplish is to keep life simple, and Joe's writing has reflected on that to varying degrees of irony. Five of his six screenplays have been quarterfinalists or semifinalists in Big Break, Shore Scripts, ScreenCraft, Outstanding Screenplays, and the latest, Chipmunk Charlie, won the Stage 32 8th Annual Comedy Feature Screenwriting Contest. Professionally, he wrote commercials during his career in advertising at Cumulus Broadcasting.
Chipmunk Charlie Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy ⋄ Horror A cynical Gen X author of morbid YA novels recounts to a Gen Z fan the life-changing event from his childhood: surviving a summer camp where a chipmunk selects a number of campers and kills them during three bizarre rituals.
The Thing About Love Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy A flabby hopeless romantic in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, convinced he's found his one true love in an athletic outdoorswoman, fakes expertise in jogging, mountain biking, and fishing to win her over before she marries the athletic outdoorsman she loves in 26 days.
Glut Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Other A blue-collar pretty boy weaves a web of lies to keep secret from his classic-beauty girlfriend the relationship he's begun with a wealthy, morbidly-obese woman to satiate his closeted feederism fetish.
Tilting at Windmills Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A quixotic advertising salesman embarks on what he sees as a noble quest to help business owners succeed, but the business owners treat him like dirt because they see him as just another salesman.
Pink Balls Budget: $10M - $30M | Sports ⋄ Comedy A spunky beverage cart girl at a formerly men-only golf club bets the misogynistic club champion she'll beat him in the men's tournament to stop him from getting repealed the new bylaw that allowed women to join.
Her Jealous Guardian Angel Budget: $10M - $30M | Romance ⋄ Comedy The ghost of an impish boyfriend watches over and protects his vivacious and accident-prone girlfriend, then sabotages her wedding to a good-but-shy guy because he can't bear to watch another man have the happiness that should have been his.
Stage 32 8th Annual Feature Comedy Screenwriting Contest Winner
(2023)