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PUBLISHED WRITING

NOVELS

SHORT STORIES

Kiss Them Goodbye

A city detective tracks a serial killer loose in a remote boy’s boarding school.

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The Sand Hill Review

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An Accident of Beauty

Crack The Spine

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Jet Lag

Sliver Of Stone Magazine

Land of Disappointment

ESSAYS

Alabama Literary Review

The Flower Truck

Hobo Pancakes

At First Blush

Slow Trains

Finding My Policeman

storySouth

Mr. Theater

The T. J. Eckleburg Review

The Night He Went Crazy Onstage

Adelaide Magazine

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New Boy Rules

Forge

Rabbit Stew

GENRE STORIES

FEATURE ARTICLES

The Dungeon

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Better Nutritian

For Men Only

POETRY

as Joe Blankenship

The Sun

At Work

The Sun

Stars

The Sun

Night

The Sun

The Palm-leaf

Journal 31

Words

Cellar Door

Out on the Job

The Sun

Town Hall

OTHER WRITING

SCREENPLAYS

iWIFE: Romantic Comedy

CRASH BURN LOVE:  Drama w/action elements (2013 Screenplay Festival Semi-Finalist)

IN A CHILD’S EYE:  Thriller/love story

THE STUDIO:  Mystery/black comedy – written w/ David Parks

FORGOTTEN:  Suspense/drama

KISS THEM GOODBYE: Thriller based on my novel (optioned)

BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DANGER:  Suspense/comedy

 

TELEVISION

ANOTHER WORLD : Two Development Scripts for this NBC daytime drama, one of which was filmed and broadcast.

BLUE MOON: 7-Act Drama script, on spec.

 

PLAYS

WILD BLUE YONDER:  Reading – WinterFest – Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA.

CANDOR:  Staged Reading – Coronet Theatre (LA) (w/ Wendy Malick and Dan Lauria).

INSULTARAMA:  Staged Reading – WinterFest – Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA.

THE GODHEAD:  USC One-Act Play Festival, First Place award (directed by Shelly Berman).

WHO KILLED THE CRITIC?:  Reading, ALAP Festival of New Plays, Stella Adler Theater (LA).

BLUE MOON:  Reading – Writers Theatre (NY) w/ Patricia Elliott and Cheryl Gianinni.

BLOOD ON THE BREEZE: – Reading, Sunday Best, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA

HEART’S DESIRE:  Staged reading on the Other Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival (w Tony-award winning actors: George Grizzard, Patricia Elliott and Donna Murphy).

 

COPYWRITING

1515 DESIGN & MANUFACTURING:  Marketing copy, video script for dorégrill gas rotisseries and frigomeccanica gelato display cases.

EXCELON FINANCIAL:  Online and print ads for financial advisor.

MEET JOE

Joseph Eastburn lived for fourteen years in New York City where his parents met on stage in 1941.

As an actor, he appeared in over thirty productions including Salome with David McCallum and Harry Hamlin at the San Antonio Theatre Festival, and A Study in Scarlet with Alec Baldwin at the Williamstown Theatre Festival—there, two of his plays were also workshopped—one, Heart’s Desire, featured three Tony Award-winning actors: Patricia Elliott, George Grizzard, and Donna Murphy. His play, The Godhead, won the 17th Annual One-Act Play Festival at USC where he earned his masters and taught writing for ten years.

His first novel, Kiss Them Goodbye, was published by Morrow in 1993, and HarperCollins brought it back in paper and eBook in January, 2016.

Besides writing psychological suspense novels, plays and screenplays, his essays, short stories and poems have been published in fine literary journals like: Reed Magazine, Sliver of Stone, The Tower Journal, Slow Trains, Alabama Literary Review, Adelaide, Crack the Spine, The Sand Hill Review, Existere, Forge, Hobo Pancakes, storySouth, the Penmen Review, Shark Reef, the T.J. Eckleburg Review, and The Sun Magazine.

With his daughter back from college, Joe lives in the Los Angeles area with his family and their demon cat, Sadie. He still drives a beautiful old wreck of a sports car, vintage 1985.

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Theater’s Bawdy Beginnings

It tells the story of Harlequino, a black servant during the throes of the African slave trade to Europe, surrounded by the hypocrisy of a rich, authoritarian class who were satirized in the town square, as the program suggests, by roving bands of actors and musicians who functioned as the modern equivalent of mobile media outlets, delivering and commenting on the news of the day. That these Commedia characters inject opinion in the most outrageous fashion not only captures a period of European history (and the beginnings of theater) it also skewers our current gobsmacked American political climate of “alternative facts” and “fake” news.

The Other F Word, essays from a dark planet

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