Biography

Writer, producer, actor, director.

Affiliations: Writers Guild of America West, Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The Actors Studio-Lifetime Member.

Stage credits (actor) include: Sweet Bird Of Youth, supporting with Ed Harris (Dynarski Theatre), 69 Degrees Below, lead with John Laroquette (Powerhouse Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, lead with Delta Burke (Stage Seventy-five), The Rose Tattoo, supporting with Karen Kondazian and Leo Rossi (Beverly Hills Playhouse), Hostile Terrain, lead with Angel Salazar (The Circle Theatre), Trendy Amour, lead with Savannah Smith (The Actors Studio West, workshop), The Strange Case Of The Tenacious Suitcase, lead with Michael Sabatino (Pilot Theatre), Botticelli lead (Actors Studio West, workshop), Blues For Mister Charlie, supporting (Odeon Theatre), In the Boom Boom Room (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, workshop), Umpires (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute)

Education: Writing: Robert McKee (Story Seminar), Elise Dewsberry, John Sparks, Scott Guy, (Academy for New Musical Theatre). Acting: The Actors Studio moderators: Lee Strasberg, Marty Landau, Shelley Winters, Mark Rydell, Ellen Burstyn. Harold Clurman (Seminar), Stella Adler, and Dominique DeFazio (Strasberg Theatre Institute), Florida State University (BS Mass Communications).

Emmy Award for Best Information series (Los Angeles area)- Health Fax (Coordinating Producer, 1989). Emmy nominations: What A Year (Best Primetime Special, LA area), Emergency Room Crisis (Best Social Issues Special, LA area), "Steroids" (Best Information Segment- Health Fax, LA area).

Joel is married to actor Gina Gallego. Their son together is Brendan E. Bailey.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Joel Bailey, (also known as Joel S. Bailey) is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, actor, and director. Professional affiliations: Writers Guild of America West, Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The Actors Studio-Lifetime Member. Stage credits (actor) include: Sweet Bird Of Youth, supporting with Ed Harris (Gene Dynarski Theatre), 69 Degrees Below, lead with John Larroquette (Powerhouse Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, lead with Delta Burke (Stage Seventy Five), The Rose Tattoo, supporting with Karen Kondazian and Leo Rossi (Hidden Valley Playhouse), Hostile Terrain, lead with Angel Salazar (The Circle Theatre), Trendy Amour, lead with Savannah Smith (The Actors Studio West, workshop), The Strange Case Of The Tenacious Suitcase, lead with Michael Sabatino (Theatre Vanguard), Botticelli lead (Actors Studio West, workshop), Blues For Mister Charlie, supporting (Odeon Theatre), In the Boom Boom Room (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, workshop), Umpires (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute), Romeo and Juliet (Ruby Diamond Concert Hall at Florida State University). Theatre writing highlights & awards: -Awarded (with Gina Gallego) the Eastside Art Initiative Grant (América Tropical-the musical), 2025-26 -Write4Art, cold reading (Rolling With the Punches) Broadwater Theatre, Hollywood -Theatre Resources Unlimited winner TRU Voices Musicals (América Tropical) Live-streamed, Manhattan 2025 -Theatre Resources Unlimited featured play, (Rolling With the Punches) TRU Voices Live-streamed, Manhattan 2024 -Latiné Musical Theatre Lab table reading selection (América Tropical, support: Amas Musical Theatre & Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Foundation) 2023 -Musical Theatre West- New Works New Voices Festival concert reading winner (América Tropical) 2023 -Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, (American Theatre Wing) América Tropical, 2022 -McCoy Rigby Ent-Raise Your Voice Award (Diversity & Inclusion), América Tropical concert reading 2022 -Center for Cultural Innovation Arts Grant- Musical Theatre 2022 -Mostly Musicals' Mardi Gras cabaret featured song (Big Noise)- 2022 -National Musical Theatre Conference Semi-Finalist (América Tropical,) 2020 -Stages Festival of New Musicals featured songs 2019 -New Musical Inc concert reading selection 2019 -Center for Cultural Innovation Arts Grant- Musical Theatre 2018 -New Musicals Inc concert reading selection (Big Noise) 2015 -Man vs Machine-Evening of Short Musicals (Studio C Artists, Hollywood) 2014 -Academy for New Musical Theatre concert reading (New York Society for the Suppression of Vice) 2013 -15 Minute Musicals featured song (Photo Finish) at The Colony Theatre, Burbank, 2012 Education: Writing: Robert McKee (Story Seminar), Elise Dewsberry, John Sparks, Scott Guy, (Academy for New Musical Theatre). Acting: The Actors Studio moderators: Lee Strasberg, Marty Landau, Shelley Winters, Mark Rydell, Ellen Burstyn. Harold Clurman (Seminar), Stella Adler, and Dominique DeFazio (Strasberg Theatre Institute), Florida State University (BS Mass Communications). Emmy Award (Los Angeles area) for Best Information series- Health Fax (Coordinating Producer, 1989). Emmy nominations: What A Year (Best Primetime Special, LA area), Emergency Room Crisis (Best Social Issues Special, LA area), "Steroids" (Best Information Segment- Health Fax, LA area). Joel is married to actor Gina Gallego, and their son is Brendan E. Bailey.
- IMDb mini biography by: Joel Bailey

Attended Florida State University in the 1970's.

Father, with Gina Gallego, of Brendan Evan Bailey.

In the 1990's Bailey managed the development and launch of several prominent entertainment websites, including: America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC), Jerry Springer (Studios USA), Xena the Warrior Princess (Universal Studios), Animal Crackups (Disney), among others.