Joy Lusco

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American film director

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imageAFS 2019 Envoy to Yaounde, Cameroon (48494122481).jpg
nameJoy Lusco
birth_placeUnited States
occupationDirector, Producer, Television Writer
nationalityAmerican
notableworksWe Are Arabbers
subjectDocumentary film
Television drama
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Joy Lusco, also known as Joy Kecken and Joy Lusco Kecken, is an American film and television director and writer. She often works with her husband, Scott Kecken. They worked on the HBO drama series The Wire on four of the show's five seasons.

Biography

Lusco moved with her family as a teenager to the Baltimore area. In 1995, while attending Towson University, she met her future husband Scott Kecken.

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. In 1998 she wrote the teleplay for episode 6.23 "Fallen Heroes: Part 2."{{cite episode | title = Fallen Heroes: Part 2 | series = Homicide: Life on the Street | series-link = Homicide: Life on the Street | credits = Kathryn Bigelow (director), James Yoshimura (story), Joy Kecken (teleplay) | network = NBC | airdate = 1998-05-08 | season = 6 | number = 23 | title = Kellerman, P.I.: Part 1 | series = Homicide: Life on the Street | series-link = Homicide: Life on the Street | credits = Kathryn Bigelow (director), James Yoshimura (story), Julie Martin (story), Joy Kecken (teleplay) | network = NBC | airdate = 1998-12-04 | season = 7 | number = 08

In 1997 she and Scott Kecken began work on a documentary film on Baltimore's "arabbers" (produce vendors who work from horse-drawn carts). They also started a production company called The Film Foundry. The project was funded by grants from the Maryland Arts Council and the Maryland Humanities Council.

In 1998 she and Scott released the short film Louisville, starring Andre Braugher (Homicide), which was screened at 35 film festivals. 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.

In 2001 she was a member of the writing staff of The Division a show about an all-female detective squad for the Lifetime network. In 2001 she programmed the Women In Film and Video festival, Diverse Voices. She and Scott married in 2002. She worked with a Girl Scout troop in a video production on self-expression, Teen Voices.

In 2002 Lusco was a member of the writing staff and the script coordinator for the first season of The Wire. Lusco and The Wire creator David Simon had been writing colleagues for Homicide.{{cite web | title = David Simon Biography | publisher = HBO | access-date = 2007-03-10 | url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/crew/david_simon.shtml | archive-date = 2010-01-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100109113120/http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/crew/david_simon.shtml | url-status = dead cite episode | title = The Hunt | episode-link = The Hunt (The Wire episode) | series = The Wire | series-link = The Wire (TV series) | credits = David Simon, Ed Burns, Joy Lusco | network = HBO | airdate = 2002-08-18 | season = 1 | number = 11}}{{ cite web | year = 2004 | title = The Wire episode guide - episode 11 The Hunt | publisher = HBO | access-date = 2006-07-26 | url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season1/episode11.shtml cite episode | title = Hard Cases | episode-link = Hard Cases (The Wire episode) | series = The Wire | series-link = The Wire (TV series) | credits = David Simon, Joy Lusco | network = HBO | airdate = 2003-06-22 | season = 2 | number = 4}}{{ cite web | year = 2004 | title = The Wire episode guide - episode 17 Hard Cases | publisher = HBO | access-date = 2006-08-24 | url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season2/episode17.shtml cite episode | title = Back Burners | episode-link = Back Burners (The Wire episode) | series = The Wire | series-link = The Wire (TV series) | credits = David Simon, Joy Lusco | network = HBO | airdate = 2004-11-07 | season = 3 | number = 7}}{{ cite web | year = 2004 | title = The Wire episode guide - episode 32 Back Burners | publisher = HBO | access-date = 2006-08-24 | url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season2/episode32.shtml

Lusco joined the Advisory Board of the Maryland Film Festival in 2003. She worked on Jim Sheridan's 50 Cent biography movie, Get Rich or Die Tryin' as a story consultant. Also in 2003 she worked as a story producer for the A&E reality TV series, Random 1.

In 2004 she and Scott had a son, Tawabi Kecken. The family settled in southern Pennsylvania. They continued to work on their documentary We Are Arabbers, which premiered September 9, 2004 at Villa Julie College. Lusco has said that the project gave her an insight into the "hard scrabble" nature of her grandparents' lives. That year she also released a short, Woman Hollering Creek, starring Larry Gilliard Jr. (The Wire); it was adapted from a short story of the same name by Sandra Cisneros. It screened at the Maryland Film Festival and the Boston International Film Festival.

In 2006 Lusco joined the writing staff of the short-lived NBC series, Standoff. She wrote episode 1.04, "Partners in Crime".{{ cite episode | title = Partners in Crime | series = Standoff | series-link = Standoff (TV series) | credits = David Straiton (director), Joy Lusco (writer) | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-09-26 | season = 1 | number = 4}}

She has co-written a feature film, Maker of Saints, which is set to star Erykah Badu.

Filmography

References

References

  1. (2004). "Joy Lusco Kecken Biography". HBO.
  2. (2004). "About The Film Foundry". The Film Foundry.
  3. Christopher Myers. (2004). "Q+A Scott Kecken and Joy Lusco Kecken". Baltimore City Paper.
  4. (2007). "''The Wire'' season 1 crew". HBO.
  5. (2007). "''The Wire'' season 2 crew". HBO.
  6. (2007). "''The Wire'' season 3 crew". HBO.

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