Joe Hortua

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Joe Hortua
BornJune 17, 1971 (1971-06-17) (age 52)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationPlaywright, screenwriter, producer
Alma mater University of Iowa, New York University
Period1997-present
Children2

Joe Hortua is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer. He has most recently worked as an Executive Producer and Writer on the Emmy nominated television show Better Things on FX. [1] Hortua has written such plays as Other Parents, Making It, and Between Us which have been performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club and South Coast Repertory Theater. He is married with two children.

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Early life

Born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove, Hortua attended Niles West High School and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1993. While in college, Hortua was a Division I walk-on swimmer. He was born to a Colombian father and a Spanish mother and was the first member of his extended family to earn a college degree. Subsequently, Hortua went on to graduate school at New York University [2] receiving his MFA in playwriting and screenwriting in 1997. While at NYU, he studied under Tony Kushner, who in 2003 referred to Hortua as one of his favorite young playwrights. [3]

Career

Hortua began his career as a playwright in New York City after graduating from NYU. His play Making It was commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre in 2002. The play was inspired by his years working at Lumi, an Italian eatery on Manhattan's Upper East Side. [2] Hortua began his television career in 2008 as a story editor on Life. He went on to staff on the shows Betrayal, Backstrom, Bones, The Night Shift, Home Before Dark and Little America. He most recently worked as an Executive Producer on Better Things for FX. [4] Hortua has also written television pilots for the FX, Showtime, FOX, Lionsgate and CW network.

In theatre, Hortua has written such plays as Other Parents, Making It, and Between Us, which have been performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club and South Coast Repertory Theater. Between Us was translated into Hebrew and performed at the Be’er Theatre in Israel, and subsequently produced in 2010 at the Ensemble Theatre in Australia. In 2008, the play was published by Dramatists Play Service. The screen adaptation of Between Us premiered in 2012 with stars Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs, David Harbour and Melissa George in the leading roles. [5]

Filmography

Source: [6]

Film
TitleYearRole
Between Us 2012Screenplay, Producer
Television
TitleYear(s)Role
Life 2008-2009Writer
Leverage 2011-2012Writer
Betrayal 2013-2014Writer, Co-Producer
Backstrom 2015Writer, Co-Producer
Bones 2015-2017Writer, Supervising Producer
The Night Shift 2017Writer, Supervising Producer
Better Things 2019–2022Writer, Executive Producer
Home Before Dark 2020-2021Writer, Co-Executive Producer

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  1. ↑ ""It Freaks People the F--k Out": Pamela Adlon on the Glory of Better Things". 9 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 reporter, Mike Boehm Mike Boehm is a former arts; Times, pop music critic for the Los Angeles (2002-01-19). "American Dream Analyst". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  3. ↑ Abramovich, Alex (30 November 2003). "THEATER; Hurricane Kushner Hits the Heartland". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ "Pamela Adlon, the TV Auteur Hiding in Plain Sight". The New Yorker . 4 February 2019.
  5. ↑ "Off-Broadway Play 'Between Us' Gets Screen Treatment". 20 April 2011.
  6. ↑ "Joe Hortua". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-10-18.


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