Joey Madia is a playwright, teaching artist, director, and actor.

He is the Artistic Director/Resident Playwright of Seven Stories Theatre Company, Inc. and Resident Playwright at Youth Stages, LLC.

He has appeared in or directed over 80 plays.

He specializes in social justice theater and participatory plays for youth with 17 original plays for young audiences.
He has written and performed pieces about Civil War captains Louis Emilio and Thomas Maulsby.

He has worked with organizations including The Epilepsy Foundation of NJ and Camp NOVA to bring theater to students with disabilities and has won three writing awards from VSA of NJ.

His poetry, essays, and short stories have been widely published and have earned him several awards.

His first novel, Jester-Knight, was published in 2009.
His second novel, Minor Confessions of an Angel Falling Upward was published in 2012.