Joël René Scoville is a writer, actress, and a very liberal Black Mormon (yes, really). Her performing career includes Mamma Mia!, Candide and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. As a librettist/lyricist, her work centers on stories and people that are often ignored. She is a 2020 recipient of the inaugural “Spark Grant” from Barrington Stage Company. Her original musical, 2&1: A Harlem Musical with Loose Morals with composer Jenna Byrd, a tale about girl meets girl meets boy and passing during the Harlem Renaissance, had a reading at UNTITLED Musical Project and is a 2022 Relentless Musical Award Honorable Mention and a 2023 NMTC Semi-Finalist. Her other original musicals include the upcoming FlopHouse about the homeless crisis with Justin Anthony Long and composer, Joanna Burns. And Tulsa!An American Musical about the 1921 race massacre where she will do book, music and lyrics. She has been a script doctor and consultant on many tv projects in development including the pilot, Nicki, Esq. for Nail-Biter Productions. An advocate for destigmatizing mental health in the Black community, she wrote and starred in her original web series, Crazy with a K! about her own mental health struggles. She is a contributing writer on an upcoming comic book series created by tv and film writer/producer Aron Eli Coleite for AfterShock Comics. She is a member of the prestigious BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, The Dramatists Guild of America, Actors’ Equity Association and is a founding member of UNTITLED Musical Project. She loves Agatha Christie, Batman and thinks “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” really wasn’t that bad; much to the chagrin of her three grown sons and her husband, whom she recently remarried…for the third time. Yes, really.
