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Joel Goss (born November 15 in Pawnee OK) writer/director/producer began his long and varied career as a writer, then disk jockey, for WDXB in Chattanooga TN in 1971. Around this time he wrote or co-wrote several shows for the Chattanooga Theatre, as well as acting in many Main Stage, theatre-in-the-round, and children’s theatre productions throughout the south. He also was a free-lance news photographer, with dozens of photos printed in such newspapers as the Chattanooga Times, and the Free-Press, and on display at the Museum of Photography in NYC. 1 His pictures also won 3 National Kodak Awards, and toured the US and were exhibited in New York’s prestigious Photography Museum. (One of these pictures is so evocative that it was given a full page in a photography manual) 2
 While in college at the University of Tennessee, he was asked to rediscover his roots in Pawnee & portray an Indian Warrior in “Young Dan’l Boone” for CBS. Guest stars he worked with in the short-lived series included Jeremy Brett, Kurt Kasznar, Clive Revill, Richard Kiel, & Paul Shenar. Victor Jory played his Medicine Man. During this time, Joel also wrote, directed and starred in numerous films at U.T. 3, as well as interviewing such people as Martrin Mull, Josh Logan, Erich von Daniken, Arthur c. Clarke & Anthony Burgess.
 In 1979, Goss became manager of the original IMPROVisation, NY’s famed nightclub, where he worked with all the top comics and singers in the city.
 During that period, in 1983, he was summoned down to Florida by Paramount and Dan Monahan for “Porky’s – The Next Day”, and was asked to stay for “Scarface”, but had to return to NY and the IMPROV managerial duties. He also worked as a freelance casting director during the day, working primarily in TV, as well as theater pieces such as Miguel Pinero’s last play “The Sun Always Shines For the Cool”. He left the Improv for more lucrative commercial production, where he worked on NY campaigns for ABC and WPIX, as well as many national spots for such diverse products as Miller Genuine Draft & Ms PacMan cereal.
 An abiding interest in Buster Keaton led Joel to contact Eleanor Keaton and Raymond Rohauer in 1983 during a Keaton festival at Lincoln Center. Joel’s work on “Buster Keaton A Hard Act To Follow” garnered a Peabody & 2 Emmy Awards.  This put him in a position to contribute to many of the subsequent books on Buster, such as Eleanor Keaton’s “Buster Keaton Remembered: 4, and Marion Meade’s “Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase”5, as well as helping curate a retrospective at the Film Forum with Bruce Goldstein. This last association led to the restoration, with Bruce, of Frank Capra’s first talkie “The Donovan Affair”, which they performed live with several others as part of the first complete Capra revival.
 After having written story ideas for TV’s “The Flash” with Elaine Lee & Michael Kaluta, Michael and Joel teamed up again for “The Shadow” for Dark Horse Comics, beginning with “The Coils of Leviathan” 6 and many more, with translations around the world. This led to being asked to adapt David Koepp’s screenplay for Universal Picture’s The Shadow, causing a bit of controversy by changing the ending (the script kept being mooted, and when press time came before movie decisions were made, Goss & Kaluta made the best sense of it.) Joel also created The Shadow Topps trading card set. A Rocketeer story by written Kaluta & Goss with creator Dave Stevens was unfortunately never published.
 Goss has also been a producer at the Hudson Stage Company for many years, along with Producer/Founders Dan Foster, Denise Bessette & Olivia Sklar. This Equity company has been producing critically acclaimed plays, readings & benefits for over 10 years. Other theatre work has earned him several TANYS and ESTA awards for directing & staging, including the world premiere of Donald Steele’s “Going To The Chapel”. Joel also serves on various boards & panels for Arts Westchester (formerly the Westchester Arts Council). 7
 Joel’s production company, Penumbra Productions, has worked with Anamorphic Films to create feature films Zombie Masters, Sandhogs,  Pirates, as well as short films & performer Speed Reels with Helge Bernhardt and Rudolf van Dommele. With them, and River Clark, Goss is also a member of MosaicaMedia, a consortium of photographers, artists & filmmakers started by Rob Jameson.
 Joel met his wife, Cat Guthrie, while co-writing “The Spectacular Days of Radio” for Radio City Music hall & Trump Plaza. They have a son named Wm. Keaton Guthrie-Goss. Always a spiritual person, Goss has been a Reverend in the ULC for many years, and in 2003 his studies paid off when he became a Doctor of Divinity. He is also founder and author of Lucid Loving ™, an interpersonal counseling service.