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JOANNE KOCH

JOANNE KOCH is the author or co-author of 17 plays and musicals including

“Raunchy Little Musical: an evening with edgy 50s comic Belle Barth,”

“American Klezmer,” a coming to America in 1910 musical,

“Nesting Dolls,” 3 men, 3 women depict the true drama of one brave woman struggling to put back the the pieces of her shattered ego.


“Soul Sisters,” 2 women singers and their agent survive and ultimately thrive in the 60s and 70s in this play with music that has toured to 32 universities across the country.  Anthologized in the Joanne Koch & Sarah Blacher Cohen collection “Shared Stages: 10 American Dramas of Blacks & Jews” that includes “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Fires in the Mirror.”


Joanne’s one act, two-person play “Stardust” won the National Nantucket Short Play Competition,

cited as a “coming of age love story” and “one of the very best treatments of high school age issues”

(published by Dramatic Publishing in Woodstock, Illinois).


Available Plays:
“Raunchy Little Musical: an evening with edgy 50s comic Belle Barth,”

“American Klezmer,” a coming to America in 1910 musical,

“Nesting Dolls,” 3 men, 3 women depict the true drama of one brave woman struggling to put back the the pieces of her shattered ego.

“Soul Sisters,” 2 women singers and their agent survive and ultimately thrive in the 60s and 70s in this play with music that has toured to 32 universities across the country.  

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