Joe began his career in television as a script-reader at LA Productions in Liverpool, before working in development for Hurricane Films. He graduated with an MA in Screenwriting from The University of Manchester, which led to his own writing being shortlisted for Channel 4’s Northern Writer’s Award (2018) and Page to Stage (2019). Joe then worked in development and production for Warp Films and 42mp, before returning north as a script reader for Lime Pictures, Duck Soup Films, and Hurricane Films; and as a story/writers’ room assistant on the latest series of Cold Feet (Series 9) for ITV and Big Talk North.