Joel Bailey - Biography

Producer, Writer, Director, and Actor with over 200 hours of broadcast television to his credit. Bailey has worked with many prominent people in the entertainment industry, including: Adam Sandler, Jim Carey, Kevin Nealon, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, Larry Miller, Tony Danza, Suzanne Somers, Richard Belzer, Robert Blake, Tom Hanks, Gina Gallego, Mark Harmon, Sally Struthers, Dennis Weaver, Linda Carter, Loni Anderson, to name a few.

Emmy Award for Best Information series- Health Fax (Coordinating Producer, 1989). Emmy nominations: What A Year (Best Prime-time Special), Emergency Room Crisis (Best Social Issues Special), "Steriods" (Best Information Segment-Health Fax).

Stage credits as an Actor include: Sweet Bird of Youth with Ed Harris, 69 Degrees Below opposite John Laroquette, A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Delta Burke, Trendy Amour opposite Savannah Smith, The Strange Case of the Tenacious Suitcase with Micheal Sabatino.

Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio. Guild memberships: Writers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Education: Florida State University (BS Mass Communications). Writing: Lajos Egri (workshop), Robert McKee, John Vorhaus, Elise Dewsberry and John Sparks (Academy of New Musical Theatre). Acting: The Actors Studio (Lee Strasberg, Sydney Pollack, Arthur Penn, Mark Rydell, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino moderators), Harold Clurman, Stella Adler, and Dominic DeFazio.

Bailey also spearheaded the development of numerous prominent entertainment websites, including: America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC), Jerry Springer (Studios USA), Xena the Warrior Princess (Universal Studios), Animal Crackups (Disney), among others.

Married to actor Gina Gallego. Son, Brendan E.Bailey.