Lisa Joy

Lisa Joy is the co-creator, executive producer and writer for the HBO series, Westworld. Joy and spouse Jonathan Nolan are the showrunners for the series.
Joy was born in New Jersey and began a writing career on the ABC show Pushing Daisies. In 2011, they joined the staff of Burn Notice as a co-producer.
Their script, Reminiscence, was on the Black List in 2013, and was bought by Legendary Pictures in the same year. Development on that project is quiet but appears to be continuing.http://www.tracking-board.com/exclusive-michael-de-luca-teams-with-legendary-to-produce-reminiscence/
Joy is the writer on Untitled Female Superhero Spider-Man Movie.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4132878/
== Westworld ==
Joy's husband, Jonathan Nolan, wasn't initially very inspired by J. J. Abrams suggestion of a new look at the classic 1973 film by Michael Crichton. Nolan had watched, and liked the film but didn't really understand what the new version would be about. "I couldn’t quite wrap my head around what it would be." Abram's idea seems to have struck Joy immediately though.http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/on-the-ranch-with-the-creators-of-westworld
== Episodes Written ==
* Season 1
** "The Original" (with Jonathan Nolan)
** "Chestnut" (with Jonathan Nolan)
** "The Stray" (with Daniel T. Thomsen)
** "Contrapasso"
** "Trace Decay" (with Charles Yu)
** "The Bicameral Mind" (with Jonathan Nolan)
* Season 2
** "Journey Into Night" (with Roberto Patino)
** "The Passenger" (with Jonathan Nolan)
* Season 3
** "Parce Domine" (with Jonathan Nolan)
** "The Winter Line" (with Matthew Pitts)
** "The Mother of Exiles" (with Jordan Goldberg)
** "Decoherence" (with Suzanne Wrubel)
* Season 4
** "The Auguries" (with Will Soodik)
** "Zhuangzi" (with Wes Humphrey)
== Episodes Directed ==
Season 2
* "The Riddle of the Sphinx"
== Trivia ==
* Graduated from Harvard Law School.
* Is of British and Taiwanese descent and speaks Chinese fluently.
* They have a daughter born in 2013/early 2014http://www.indiewire.com/2014/08/on-the-rise-2014-13-screenwriters-to-watch-273392/ and are expecting their second child.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/arts/television/is-the-ambitious-westworld-hbos-next-big-hit.html?_r=1
* Lisa Joy will direct the film Reminiscence, in which she will collaborate with Jonathan Nolan, Thandie Newton and Paul Cameron.
== References ==
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