Joe Feinstein

Playwright

Joe is an upandcoming 74 year-old playwright, born and raised in The Bronx, who taught high school and college English on Long Island (NY) and in Rochester, MI. In his other life, he was a psychologist, doing substance abuse therapy in suburban Detroit and Los Angeles. During all those years, he's had children's books, theater reviews, and humorous sketches published, and he has collaborated on plays which had amateur productions and Broadway options.

Since making the liberating leap to Word Processing in 1995, his oneact plays have had staged readings, won second prize in a national oneact play contest, and have been performed for three years as a catalyst for student discussions on divorced families in Detroit area schools. One of them, "Unfinished Business", has had two off off Broadway productions at The American Theatre for Actors.

Three of his fulllength comedies have had staged readings at JCCs in Los Angeles and Michigan BETTER THAN MONEY (formerly entitled,HOME, FREE ALL! ); THE LAST OF THE AZTECS; and EMPTY SEAT ON THE MONEY TRAIN, which starred Ed Asner.. AZTECS had a staged reading at The Performance Network in Ann Arbor, MI. and had a sixweek production at The MET Theatre, a 99seat house, in Hollywood, CA.

Play Roster

THE LAST OF THE AZTECS
On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, lifelong friends, nearing the end of their days and still very much alive, deal, comically and tearfully, with issues of love and sex, family and friends, illness and dying, and other trivial concerns, including a favorite granddaughter's lesbianism.
(5 females, 2 males one set)

EMPTY SEAT ON THE MONEY TRAIN
In a South Florida country club community, two multimillionaires, a moneydriven husband and a newlyreformed scammer suitor, the latter more multi than the former, offer their all to the wife/woman they love. Whom will this practical, culturedriven, frightenedtogoitalone woman choose?
(1 female, 2 males 2 sets)

BETTER THAN MONEY
In The Bronx, in 1946, the Noodleman family undergoes a crisis in values, and some surprising changes, because of an unexpected visit by a newlyliberated young woman, when she stays for supper.
(4 females, 2 males 1 set)

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