Joe Cacaci
Joe Cacaci is the founding director of East Coast Arts, where he
produced twenty world premiere plays over seven seasons, and the
Producing Director, with Dan Lauria, of The Playwrights Kitchen
Ensemble in L.A. from 1993 to the present, where over 500 new plays
have been given staged readings in the Monday Night Reading Series. In
addition, Joe has worked with David Mamet, The New York Shakespeare
Festival, The Westport Playhouse, and Coconut Grove Theatre. His own
plays have been produced at The Public, The Long Wharf, and at The
Alley Theatre in Houston. He has written numerous made-for-television
movie scripts and co-created the CBS prime time series The Trials of
Rosie O’Neill. He was executive producer (show runner) of two prime
time series: Showtime‘s The Hoop Life and CBS’ The Education of Max
Bickford starring Richard Dreyfuss. He also directed an independent
film, Stranger in My House, which starred Lindsey Crouse, and is
fundraising for his feature film, Courthouse, which he will direct. Currently, Joe teaches television writing in the graduate program of the Film School at Columbia University.
