Joseph Reed Hayes, playwright

Critics have called the work of Joseph Reed Hayes "lyrical", "touching" and "beautiful". Noted composer and writer David Amram called him "a true dramatist," and said, "His work and all the events he creates are significant nationally and internationally."

As a freelance writer, Joseph Hayes works for print and online publications worldwide. Co-owner of The Burry Man Writers Center, an award-winning worldwide community of writers. Co-founder of the social network for creative artists called Inked-In. Producer and curator of Jazz On Edge, a showcase for new and original works by jazz musicians. Publisher/writer, Spice Maven Press.

His collaborations include spoken-word performances with Mr. Amram, performances of West Farms, The Planets Align In Their Sinister Design and the Orlando International Fringe Festival production of Solos with jazz trumpeter Brian Groder, and What James Learned on the Internet as the "Joseph Hayes Trio" with Groder and bassist Doug Mathews. He has been an associate artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts three times: with Samuel R. Delany (1997); Douglas Coupland (2000); and Cornelius Eady (2007).

"Joseph Hayes is one of the new voices that can bring the theater to new audiences. His sense of dialogue and structure, his wit and awareness of the foibles of our society and the humanism that fill the pages of his work make him a true dramatist. His work and all the events he creates are significant nationally and internationally." — David Amram, composer and author  

"Hayes' work is appealing and sometimes downright lyrical." — Orlando Sentinel