Joe Quattro

Multi-Genre Writer

Plays

Burning Assets

Burning Assets — As wildfires consume the land, homeowners are forced to reckon with how little they understand their own options.
The Secret Theatre, 2026

Rising Tide

Rising Tide — Stranded on rooftops amid an endless flood, two strangers must decide what to do next.
The Secret Theatre, 2025

Love in Times of Crisis poster art

Love in Times of Crisis — Love and politics collide as a trans relationship is tested by crisis. Co-written with Marjorie Conn.
The Tank NYC, 2024; also produced in Chicago

Sextasy poster art

Sextasy — An S&M love story. Co-written with Marjorie Conn.
The Tank NYC, 2024

Rip Tide production photo
Rip Tide production photo

Rip Tide — Two ghosts play tricks on Staten Island Ferry passengers.
Players Theatre / BeBold Productions, 2023; also selected for the Love Creek Productions Short Play Festival, American Theatre for Actors, 2023

Intentions playbill

Intentions — A short play depicting the human toll of gun violence.
The Tank NYC, 2022

The Tank NYC entrance
Players Theatre stage

Readings

A Galere of Poetic Autopsies

A Galere of Poetic Autopsies
A Galere of Poetic Autopsies

Park Theater, 2026

Writing the Walls (WTW)

WTW 2025

Writing the Walls, Spring 2025 poster

Spring Readings, 2025

A Galere of Poetic Autopsies

A Galere of Poetic Autopsies, 2024
A Galere of Poetic Autopsies, 2024

2024

New York City Reading

Writing the Walls, Fall 2024, New York
Writing the Walls, Fall 2024, New York

New York, Fall 2024

Writing the Walls (WTW)

WTW 2024

Writing the Walls, HV MOCA

A two-week performance event exploring the relationship between visual, performative, and written arts.
Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, April 2024

Publications

Twilight Train in LAAFTRRRR

Twilight TrainLAAFTRRRR, Vol. 2, an anthology of one-minute comic plays

Cracked It in Mini Plays Review

Cracked ItMini Plays Review, June 2025, an international journal of short plays and monologues

Beacon Radiant anthology cover

Houseboats (fiction) — Beacon Radiant, an anthology from Great Weather for Media Press, 2024

Writing Experience

Ten years of experience in journalism, ghostwriting, and editing across a range of publications.

Award

Finalist, James Jones First Novel Fellowship

Writing Residencies

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation — Taos, New Mexico
Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences — Rabun Gap, Georgia