Joe is a Cleveland based actor and director who grew up performing theater in Alexandria, Virginia. He studied Film and Drama at Syracuse University, where he also served as the Vice President of the campus' branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). After moving to Northeast Ohio, Joe began working in the film industry and studying at the Houde School of Acting, where he was further trained in Improv comedy and the Meisner technique of acting. He later signed with a commercial agent and began regularly teaching his own improv classes in the Fall of 2017; and by 2021 had started online classes that brought students in from all over the world!