Joël René Scoville

Biography

Joël is a Black Mormon (yes, really), actress, writer, librettist and lyricist. Her musical 2&1: A Harlem Love Story with Loose Morals with composer Jenna Gillespie Byrd centers queer Black women during the Harlem Renaissance and is a 2023 Eugene O’Neill Finalist, a 2022 Relentless Award Honorable Mention and received a reading through UNTITLED Musical Project. She is a co-lyricist on the Broadway-aimed Yasuke: The Legend of the Black Samurai under the direction of Broadway choreographer JoAnn M. Hunter and her musical Flophouse concerning the American housing crisis with co-writer Justin Anthony Long and composer Joanna Burns, is a 2023 Rhinebeck Finalist. In 2024, her 10-minute play Ethel and Ethel was selected and premiered at the Obie Award winning festival, The Fire This Time and she wrote and starred in the web series, Crazy with a K!, comically depicting her experience with depression. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, The Dramatists Guild of America, Actors’ Equity Association and a founding member of the UNTITLED Musical Writers Group. She loves Agatha Christie, Batman and even Star Wars: The Force Awakens; much to the chagrin of her three grown sons and her husband, whom she recently remarried...for the third time (yes, really). Her concept album for her musical 2&1: A Harlem Love Story is available now on music streaming platforms.