Biography
Joe Tracz is an American screenwriter and playwright. He wrote for and produced all three seasons of the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019). He has also written episodes of Dash & Lily (2020), which he created, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023–2024).
Tracz serves as writer, executive producer and co-showrunner on the second season of the Netflix series One Piece (2026). His stage credits include the book for the musicals Be More Chill (Broadway, 2019) and The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Book of a Musical). He holds a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is an alumnus of the Ars Nova Play Group and a former Playwrights Realm writing fellow.
