Joe Iconis

Joe Iconis is a musical theatre writer and performer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award, a Richard Rodgers Award, the ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Lyric Award and the Manhattan Association of Cabarets Board of Directors Award. His musical Be More Chill (with Joe Tracz) has played Broadway, London and Tokyo, and his new show The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (directed by Christopher Ashley) has played the La Jolla Playhouse and the Signature in Washington, D.C.

Joe is the author of Love in Hate Nation (directed by John Simpkins; Two River Theater), Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams; Barrington Stage Company and off-Broadway with Greenwich House Theater), Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova, NAMT), Punk Rock Girl! (for Lively McCabe), The Black Suits (with Robert Maddock; Center Theatre Group, Barrington Stage Company), ReWrite (Urban Stages, Goodspeed), Things To Ruin (2nd Stage Theater, The Zipper Factory) and TheatreWorksUSA’s The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We the People.

His music appeared on season two of NBC’s Smash, and he frequently performs at 54 Below and the Laurie Beechman Theatre. His albums include Album (Joe Iconis & Family), the original cast recordings of Love in Hate Nation, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Things To Ruin and Be More Chill (both OCR and OBCR, which have been streamed over 750 million times) as well as Two-Player Game (with George Salazar) and The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree, all available from Ghostlight Records. Joe is hugely inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, The Muppets and the Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with.