With over twenty-five years of professional experience in the entertainment industry, Joe Vaz has worked most facets of the business.<\/p>\n
Actor in Good Omens, Dredd, Black Sails & more. Writer for NMP DSTV & Callsheet. Founder and editor of Something Wicked<\/em><\/a> anthology series. He has published short stories in the British Fantasy Award-nominated African Monsters<\/a><\/em> anthology, alongside the likes of Nnedi Okorafor, and in Jurassic London<\/a>‘s The Extinction Event<\/a><\/em>, alongside stories from award-winners like Becky Chambers, Adam Roberts, Lavie Tidhar and Henrietta Rose-Innes.<\/p>\n With a versatile and adaptable writing voice, Joe’s article strengths are entertainment and publicity pieces having freelanced for Callsheet, Multichoice, TV PLus, and Something Wicked – handling interviews, reviews, synopses and op-ed pieces on books, films, television shows, actors and authors.<\/p>\n His background in the entertainment industry gives him a keen insight into the workings of film and television production.<\/p>\n Joe also has extensive script-writing experience. Through 2008\/2009 Joe was one of the core team of three writers on E-TV series Cool Catz<\/em> and produced around forty scripts for the 22-minute, daily live-action children\u2019s show.<\/p>\n Through 2013\/2014 Joe worked as one of the core team of three scriptwriters for Bubblegum Productions\u2019 animated shows, Learn Like Lerato<\/em>, Squigglemajig<\/em>, and Lost Book<\/em> (unproduced).<\/p>\n He is currently working on two children\u2019s adventure books and developing a 13-part supernatural drama series for television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With over twenty-five years of professional experience in the entertainment industry, Joe Vaz has worked most facets of the business. Actor in Good Omens, Dredd, Black Sails & more. Writer for NMP DSTV & Callsheet. Founder and editor of Something Wicked anthology series. He has published short stories in the British Fantasy Award-nominated African Monsters … Continue reading “About”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHis written and directed short-film, Blue Valentine<\/em> (co-scripted with Vianne Venter) was an Official Selection<\/em> at the Durban International Film Festival, 2005<\/em>.<\/p>\n