Joey Sims is a critic and playwright based in Brooklyn. He is a frequent contributor and social media editor at Exeunt NYC. He has worked as a script reader for New Dramatists, Manhattan Theatre Club and The Public Theater. Joey has conducted research for The Civilians, and written at The Tank and The PIT. He is also an alumnus of the National Critics Institute. Prior to the theater shutdown in New York City, he was an operations manager at TodayTix.
In their first live performance since the shutdown, two theater veterans read Frederick Douglass’s historic speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” on its 168th anniversary, baptizing Brooklyn’s Black Lives Matter mural.
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