Joy Lusco
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| Born | The Wire on four of the show's five seasons.
BiographyLusco moved with her family as a teenager to the Baltimore area.[1] In 1995, while attending Towson University, she met her future husband Scott Kecken.[2] After graduating from college, she took an internship with the Baltimore-based television show Homicide: Life on the Street. Eventually she became a freelance writer for the show.[1] In 1998 she wrote the teleplay for episode 6.23 "Fallen Heroes: Part 2."[3] Later that year she wrote the teleplay for episode 7.08, "Kellerman, P.I.: Part 1."[4] In 1997 she and Scott Kecken began work on a documentary film on Baltimore's "arabbers" (produce vendors who work from horse-drawn carts).[5] They also started a production company called The Film Foundry.[2] The project was funded by grants from the Maryland Arts Council and the Maryland Humanities Council.[2] In 1998 she and Scott released the short film Louisville, starring Andre Braugher (Homicide),[2] which was screened at 35 film festivals.[5] It won best short at the New York Independent International Film Festival, a Jury Award from the Atlanta Film and Video Festival, and the Lumiere Award from the New Orleans Film and Video Festival.[2] In 2001 she was a member of the writing staff of The Division[citation needed] a show about an all-female detective squad for the Lifetime network.[2] In 2001 she programmed the Women In Film and Video festival, Diverse Voices.[2] She and Scott married in 2002.[2] She worked with a Girl Scout troop in a video production on self-expression, Teen Voices.[2] In 2002 Lusco was a member of the writing staff and the The Hunt".[8][9] She worked as a staff writer for the season of 2002, as well.[10] She co-wrote the story and wrote the teleplay for the fourth episode "Hard Cases".[11][12] She returned as a member of the writing team for the show's third season in 2004.[13] She co-wrote the story and wrote the teleplay for seventh episode "Back Burners".[14][15]
Lusco joined the Advisory Board of the Maryland Film Festival in 2003.[2] She worked on Jim Sheridan's 50 Cent biography movie, Get Rich or Die Tryin' as a story consultant.[2] Also in 2003 she worked as a story producer for the A&E reality TV series, Random 1.[2] In 2004 she and Scott had a son, Tawabi Kecken. In 2006 Lusco joined the writing staff of the short-lived NBC series, Standoff. She wrote episode 1.04, "Partners in Crime".[16] She has co-written a feature film, Maker of Saints, which is set to star Erykah Badu.[2] Filmography
References
External linksJoy Lusco at IMDb
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