PUBLISHED WRITING
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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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Crack The Spine
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Sliver Of Stone Magazine
ESSAYS
Alabama Literary Review
Hobo Pancakes
Slow Trains
storySouth
The Penmen Review
The T. J. Eckleburg Review
Adelaide Magazine
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Forge
Shark Reef
Reed Magazine
The Tower Journal
Existere
GENRE STORIES
FEATURE ARTICLES
Dead Time
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American Theatre
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POETRY
as Joe Blankenship
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In-Theater
TheaterWeek
The Sun
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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