Joël is a Black Mormon (yes, really), actress, writer, librettist and lyricist. Her musical 2&1: A Harlem Love Story with Loose Morals with composer Jenna Gillespie Byrd, centering queer women during the Harlem Renaissance, was a 2023 Eugene O’Neill Finalist, a 2022 Relentless Award Honorable Mention, received a reading through UNTITLED Musical Project and released a concept album in October 2025 thanks to a grant from NYC Women' s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre. She is a co-lyricist for the upcoming Yasuke: The Legend of the Black Samurai under the direction of Broadway choreographer JoAnn M. Hunter and her musical Flophouse with co-writer Justin Anthony Long and composer Joanna Burns that addresses the American housing crisis was a 2023 Rhinebeck Finalist. In 2024, her 10-minute play Ethel and Ethel was selected and premiered at the Obie Award winning festival, The Fire This Time and is streaming on All Arts TV. An advocate for mental health, she wrote and starred in the web series, Crazy with a K!, which comically depicts depression. She is a member and alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (librettist and lyricist), The Dramatists Guild of America, Actors’ Equity Association and a founding member of the UNTITLED Musical Writers Group. She loves Agatha Christie, Batman and even Star Wars: The Force Awakens; much to the chagrin of her three grown sons and her husband, whom she recently remarried...for the third time (yes, really).