Joel Waggoner is a writer, actor, composer, music director, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, comedian, and one-time game show winner. He was part of the Broadway casts of School of Rock and Be More Chill, where he went on to play Mr. Heere/Mr. Reyes/Scary Stockboy. He has appeared Off-Broadway in Southern Comfort at the Public Theater and will play Ralph in the original cast of the new Ahrens & Flaherty musical Knoxville in its upcoming premiere at Asolo Rep.

With co-creator Julia Mattison, Joel wrote and performed a selection of original comedic Christmas carols on the popular Instagram handle @adventcarolndar. Joel and Julia’s Advent Carolndar was featured on NPR Weekend Edition and Jimmy Kimmel Live! with Ben Platt.

Joel’s work as a music director and/or vocal arranger includes Broadway Bounty Hunter (Off-Broadway at Greenwich House Theatre/Barrington Stage Company) and many productions at Pace University where he served as the Director of Music. Joel has many popular stand alone songs such as “Empathy” and “Nice Guy”, and his musical theater composition credits include Presto Change-o (book/lyrics by Eric Price) and the upcoming The Supadupa Kid (both at Barrington Stage), plus incidental music for the forthcoming play Hester Street.

He created the one-man show The Joel Waggoner Experience (Joe’s Pub), sang and played violin on many albums, released the single “Unlikely Warrior, and appeared in the music video for the song “Get Into It…Queen,” which he co-wrote. Joel received his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU and was a Dramatists Guild Fellow. His work has been heard on concert stages all over New York, he was founding member of the Musical Theatre Factory, and he was the winner of the Season 3 premiere of ABC’s The $100,000 Pyramid.

@joelwaggoner @adventcarolndar @joelcappella on Instagram.