Joyce Wu
Joyce

Joyce Wu grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. She wrote, directed and produced her first stage play at the age of 20. It premiered at the Oxford Playhouse’s Burton Taylor Studio while she was studying English Literature at the University of Oxford in England. After graduating with honors and distinction from the University of Michigan, she went on to become a founding member and the literary manager of Mir Productions, an Off-Off Broadway theater company. After seeing her New York debut, Backstage hailed her as “a promising young playwright.” She was awarded a Maurice Kanbar Institute fellowship and a scholarship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to pursue her master’s degree in Film Production from New York University’s prestigious Graduate Film program, whose alumni include such directors as Martin Scorsese, Joel Coen, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Amy Heckerling among numerous others who have contributed to American independent cinema. The first season of her web series Mr. Right is available to view and her first feature film She Lights Up Well was acquired by American Express for its Amex Now app on Roku boxes and Smart TVs and has screened at several festivals and universities and at the United Nations. It is currently available on iTunes VOD.

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