Director, Our Shrinking, Shrinking World (2022)
Joe Cacaci is a writer, producer, and professor. He has directed plays at The Public (for Joseph Papp), Westport Playhouse, Coconut Grove and commercially in New York and Los Angeles. Joe produced the Boston premiere of Mamet’s “American Buffalo” and co-produced the Obie-winning New York premiere of Mamet’s “Edmond.” As founding Artistic Director of East Coast Arts, he produced 20 new plays. As a founding co-Artistic Director of Berkshire Playwrights Lab in Great Barrington, MA, he recently directed the world premiere of James Tyler’s “Some Old Black Man,” then directed and co-produced the New York premiere, featuring Wendell Pierce and Tony winner Roger Robinson.
Joe co-created the CBS series “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” and has been executive producer of three series: SHOWTIME’s “The Hoop Life,” CBS’s “The Education of Max Bickford,” and PBS’s “Copshop.” He has written movies for ABC, CBS and NBC, and directed two indie features. He teaches TV writing in the graduate film program at Columbia University and the undergraduate Film Studies program at Wesleyan University.