Beach Breaks makes 2020 The Red List as top rated stage and screenplays for 2020 by Coverfly.
Read Screencraft interview here
Read Broadway World here
Read Screencraft interview here
Read Broadway World here
Joanna presented three of her plays Cat and Mouse, Sylvie and Sly and "Beach Break sponsored by The League of Professional Theater Women, with directors Susan Izatt (The Actors Studio, director at the directors and and playwrights unit), Lorca Peress (Multistages) and Amanda Moresco (The Actors Gym) under the artistic direction of Christine Cirker (The Barrow Group Theater, FAB -- for and by women) in 2020 and star cast Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years), and Caroline Aaron (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
BEACH BREAK, as a short play is written by PICKERING is official selection top FIVE finalists for HBO'S ITV fest sponsored by The Academy and The Writers Guild US, as well as an official finalist for Screencraft stage plays judged by two Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, managers at Kaplan/Perone Entertainment and The Gotham Group, the Art Director for The Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, and Award-winning writer on Ava Duvernay and Oprah Winfrey's OWN’s Queen Sugar, it aired on British Radio, Resonance FM in february 2019. It was first selected and debuted with Primitive Grace Theater Ensemble "Duende Series" and had its first public debut at The Bridge Theater in New York City, August 2018 as a piece in development.
JOANNA is the recipient of full writing scholarships for her work from: Paris Writers Retreat 2019 with The Rohm Literary Agency, Margaret Atwood agent Phoebe Larmore, Rocaberti Scholarship 2019 with mentor Jen Grisanti for writers on the verge at NBC, and to work alongside David Paul Kirkpatrick, former president of Paramount Pictures and Head of productions at Walt Disney pictures /Touchstone, a fellow for Robert Mckee, and 1 in 8 plays selected by the Dramatist Guild Institute.
She is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment for screenwriting.
JOANNA is the recipient of full writing scholarships for her work from: Paris Writers Retreat 2019 with The Rohm Literary Agency, Margaret Atwood agent Phoebe Larmore, Rocaberti Scholarship 2019 with mentor Jen Grisanti for writers on the verge at NBC, and to work alongside David Paul Kirkpatrick, former president of Paramount Pictures and Head of productions at Walt Disney pictures /Touchstone, a fellow for Robert Mckee, and 1 in 8 plays selected by the Dramatist Guild Institute.
She is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment for screenwriting.
A stunning play. Brilliant in the way it built up slowly, piling up suspense, brilliant in the lifestyle it portrays ..and the characters. And smashing in it's end. An astonishing work, because it lingers in your mind which means it's literally unforgettable"
Howard Bloom, Award winning Author
The piece contains a spark of genius and is the mark of a great writer"
Emily Carmichael (Jurassic World 3 Screenwriter, Director Amblin Entertainment)
The characters and story are strong, go for it!"
Irvine Welsh, Best selling novelist,Trainspotting
BOARDWALK suspense thriller screenplay by Joanna Pickering screened at The Anthology Archive Film Theater in September 2018 after she was selected by The Women in Film Challenge as screenwriter. It was award nominated for Best Thriller Mystery and Best Film at NY Web Fest 2019.
Boardwalk is fluid, sensational and beautiful"
Flick Daily Film Review
Boardwalk is an impacting impressive work"
Indie Activity Film Review
Joanna ..turned in a screenplay with much vigor"
IndieActivity, Film Review
Full review here
Joanna has written plays, prose and poetry which have aired for radio on Resonance FM, London, UK.
She is a member of Primitive Grace theater ensemble in New York City which shines a light on writing plays and works with the "duende"
She is a member of Primitive Grace theater ensemble in New York City which shines a light on writing plays and works with the "duende"
Your characters are wonderfully complex -- human, fragile because of the situation, out of control due to neurosis and cycle of friendship -- it was like watching a train wreck unfold"
Madeline Stephenson, writer, director
"I wanted to explore the effect of sexual assault from the female perspective, by not showing it as an event. I wanted my focus to be on the break downs and relations after: in the coping mechanisms (or lack of). Also, I wanted to consider and explore the non-credible victims. To somehow explore vulnerability within strength, and strength within vulnerability.
Joanna Pickering on Podcast Interview
Joanna Pickering on Podcast Interview
Screenplays in development are Nanking Road (Downton Abbey/Marvel director, Games of Thrones actor), The Subordinates, Beach Break.
Joanna has published creative memoirs with Burning House Press
Nothing Dries Sooner Than A Tear
She writes on matters of gender and inclusivity as an expert for Backstage Magazine and as a published feature author for Louder Than War, and Bellacadonia in UK. As a known activist she has written essays on socio political agenda, has been "vociferous" lobbying for intersectionality.
Gender Inequality And Male Identity
Challenging The Patriarchy
She discusses her work and ideology with leading esteemed activists and writers as Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Noam Chomksy, Chris Hedges, Ben Wizner among others, featured in a new 2018 web series for News Voice. In this in-depth interview she discusses gender inequality, the dangers of feminism without intersectionality, diversity and inclusivity, ways to dismantle patriarchal structure, female content in the entertainment industry, and the children being our biggest hope.
Early writing career:
Between 2009 to 2014, Joanna self-published, under a pseudonym, semi-autobiographical diaries documenting her travels. It was picked up by her friend, writer and journalist, Innes Reekie (The Times, The Scotsman), (after a piece on Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York City, before gentrification of the area), who felt compelled to write a feature article on Joanna, published in John Robb's "Louder Than War" Magazine, and linking her work to the indie artist community. When it revealed her pen name the article was removed at her request. However, it had created a platform that gained her praise and encouragement for her intuitive "new beat" style from the literary industry.
Joanna has written lyrics for the song "Drop" aired on BBC 6 Music, and also "The Final Ending" played on East Village Radio, New York City. Joanna read her creative writing on Resonance FM "The Fall Of Babylon Show" which broadcast live on March 22nd 2013 in London.
"As a person who has worked in the world of books most of my life and spent all my 20s in NYC (I once worked at a women's shelter in Bed Stuyvesant around 1992) I just was compelled to say I loved this writing, it felt like a 2011 version of Just Kids, I want to read this book when it is done because it's surely underway."
Jane Darroch Riley, BBC London and Harper Collins, New York, Fiction Publisher
Joanna is part of a new breed of brave young writers and actors, unafraid of the world, alive to chance, and always ready to explore all possibilities.
Johny Brown, director and playwright, UK
"People often send me their writing as I'm an editor and I'm forever being enthusiastic and encouraging when things are really only okay - I tend to get over-excited if I detect the tiniest bit of potential, just so I don't discourage people. I wasn't prepared for Joanna's [story] being so fantastic. I hardly ever read someone who can paint the taste of something - darkness, and so forth - in words like that. It's a kind of New Beat, I think... anyway, thanks to her for letting us all read it."
Senior Editor, Pavilion Publishing
It is incredible writing, which amazingly has reminded me of Black-American writers like Charles Perry (Portrait of a Young Man Drowning) – they’ve both written wonderful accounts of living in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. He died in 1969, but unwittingly it seems, she’s picked up that baton – to tell it how it is, no matter how bad it is, and no matter how desperate – someone needs to commentate, and Joanna has that capacity."
Innes Reekie, Writer and Journalist, The Times, The Scotsman (taken from Louder Than War article).
Joanna has an extraordinary gift for creative writing"
Katerina Georgiou, Editor Assistant, Zani Magazine, 2012
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