Joe Gonzalez(I)

Born in 1957 and raised in New York City, Joe began his career in Film and Television as a child actor. In 1996 he returned to school to reinvent himself. From the Borough of Manhattan Community College, then Vassar College on an "Exploring Transfer Program" and finally New York University's, Tisch School of the Arts to study Film and Television Production with a concentration on screenwriting. In 1998, Joe won the NYU/Universal Wasserman Award given to one Tisch undergraduate annually. The Wasserman Award, an internship-scholarship-fellowship, helped pay the remainder of Joe's NYU tuition, gave him a relocation stipend to go to Los Angeles and placed him on Universal's "American Pie." After graduating in 1999, Joe went on to work as a Set Production Assistant on NBC's Law & Order (The Mothership). Joe was fortunate in that he continued to work in front of the camera as an actor on other shows and on the production side at Law & Order. He eventually worked for the Locations department, the Camera department and the Production Office where he ended his Law & Order run in 2010 as the Production Coordinator. Following the end of Law & Order, Joe went on to work as Eric Overmyer's Executive Assistant on HBO's "Treme" in New Orleans for Season Two. At the end of Season Two, Joe returned to New York and was fortunate to land a job with Local 817 of the New York Theatrical Teamsters Union. In 2014, luck smiled on Joe once again as he was hired as a staff writer on Amazon's "Bosch" where he wrote Episode Seven, "Lost Boys" then reinvented back in Season Two as a Story Editor and co-wrote Episode Eight, "Follow the Money.