Joy Tomasko’s plays have been performed in the U.S., Cuba, and Germany. She’s created several site-specific interactive installations and performances for New York City festivals and galleries and recently started Tiny Box Theater, a company that produces both installations and stories that unfold inside of repurposed boxes.
Recent collaborations include dialogue for visual artist Karen Ostrom’s animated Civil War era tintype, Card Players that won "Best in Show" in BRIC’s Open (C)all: Up for Debate. They collaborated on two additional tintypes for a show at Ball & Socket Arts in Cheshire, CT.
She frequently works with Theatre 167 as a writer and creative consultant. With director and choreographer Jeffry Denman, she is currently co-writing a new dance theater piece about The Donner Party.
Joy is an affiliated writer with the Playwrights Center. She's also a former Jerome Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, AROHO Creative Artist Retreat Scholar, Women’s Project Lab Member and NYSCA Playwright-in-Residence, plumage writer's group member, Gateway Middle School Playwright-in-Residence, and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Lab Resident Playwright.
