About

Joelle Joyner-Wong is a Playwright, Screenwriter, and Director based in Los Angeles. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Theater with a concentration in Theater Studies at Sonoma State University. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Joelle has participated in many theater opportunities as long as she could remember. Starting off with acting classes at just 6-years-old. Around the same time, Joelle wrote short stories as a hobby. In her last 2 years at Sonoma State, Joelle was awarded the Person Theater scholarship. She was actively involved in the theatre department, and wrote her first play for the student play writing festival, Powerlines. Powerlines made Joelle realize her dream for becoming a playwright, and even look into screenwriting. In the last year, Joelle has been making her name out in local Bay Area Theater companies, such as San Jose Stage Company, Plethos Productions, Berkeley Rep, and AlterTheater. Summer 2023, her play "Post Grad Life" had a stage reading hosted by Pletho's Productions. In August 2024 "Post Grad Life" went on to perform at Playground SF's Free-Play Festival. Joelle currently works at The Wallis Annenberg Center of the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills as a Ticket Service Associate.