Joanne De Simone

Joanne de Simone was an author, dramatist, poet, and filmhistorian. She was host of "Notes & Notions from The Writing Desk"at LTV-East Hampton Public Access Television, and a weekly gueston Haim Mizrahi's "Hello Hello."Joanne wrote 12 plays, including "Suicide Angel," which is in featurefilm pre-production. Joanne's film, "White Caps," produced by theViking Theater Company, was presented at NewFilmmakers in NYC.Her film review column was published in the "Fire Island News" from1998-2003. Joanne...See more

Joanne de Simone was an author, dramatist, poet, and filmhistorian. She was host of "Notes & Notions from The Writing Desk"at LTV-East Hampton Public Access Television, and a weekly gueston Haim Mizrahi's "Hello Hello."Joanne wrote 12 plays, including "Suicide Angel," which is in featurefilm pre-production. Joanne's film, "White Caps," produced by theViking Theater Company, was presented at NewFilmmakers in NYC.Her film review column was published in the "Fire Island News" from1998-2003. Joanne's books include "The Metro Cats: Life in the Coreof the Big Apple" and "The Peculiar Plight of Milicent Wryght," bothyoung adult urban tales set in Manhattan. She also penned "Songsfrom Under the El, Memories of Life in the Dark," her personal storyof growing up in Brooklyn, NY and her friends and family there."Lovers. Husbands. Strangers" is a baby boomer's chronicle of lust, love, and one-night stands under her pen name, L. L. Ferris.Ms. de Simone was a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Shakespeare Guild, and the Academy of American Poets. She held aBA in Film, Literature, and Creative Writing and lived on the east endof Long Island, New York. Joanne passed away in May 2022. See less