Joey Day Hargrove

Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Joey

Joey Day Hargrove is an award-winning LA-based comedy writer who fell into working with teenagers for her career and is distrubed by how lost they all seem (especially the girls), so she tends to write about lonely women finding belonging in the least likely of places through uplifting, often irrevent, journeys of self-discovery.

Growing up in Oklahoma, Joey never quite fit in. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, she moved to L.A. searching for her own place to belong. However, Joey’s current job working at a church, running after-school programs and summer camps, proves that she didn’t entirely abandon her Bible belt roots, which also means she doesn't quite fit it in the big city of Los Angeles either.

Joey‘s scripts have won several contests including the Austin Film Festival, WAN (Writers Assistant Network) Fellowship and the NYWFIT’s Writer’s Lab. She won the Silver prize in PAGE in 2023. She has placed as a finalist in Big Break and a semifinalist in Nicholl.

Joey believes television and movies play an important role in shaping our culture, which is such a momentous responsibility – especially now when the world feels so broken. She also strongly believes that we need laughter more than ever and wants to create quirky stories with heart.

When not writing, she enjoys indulging in her online shopping addiction, hiking the longest hikes she can persuade her friends to do, and spending time with her husband, teen stepson and ridiculously poorly-behaved, very spoiled dogs.

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Middle Eastern

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Zom-body to Love Horror ⋄ Comedy During the zombie apocalypse, an awkward, know-it-all lesbian teen drags a reluctant Boomer doomsday-prepper woman along on her a mission to kiss a girl before the world comes to an end.
Once Upon a Queendom Musical ⋄ Family In a gender-twisted fairytale, a sweet but mistreated Prince realizes his stepfather is out to kill him and flees his Queendom to escape the King’s magic-potion wielding rage. But with all this drama, how will he ever get to the Royal Ball where his true love is about to choose which Prince she will marry?
DISCONNECT Family ⋄ Adventure When invading aliens shut down the internet and use human’s technology-obsession against them, one disconnected family finds itself in the unexpected position to save their small town, but they’re going to have to work together to do it -- IRL.
MIDDLE SCHOOL MOB Crime ⋄ Comedy When three super-smart tween misfits create a science project coveted by the organized criminals in their town, they realize that committing crimes comes way easier for them than navigating the social hierarchy of middle school.
WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND Comedy When a lonely 30-something’s beloved dog magically transforms into a very enthusiastic person, she must teach her out-of-control, drama-inducing BFF how to be human, while realizing she has a lot to learn herself.
SCREWED UP OR BORING Romance ⋄ Comedy An immature middle school teacher has hit the point in every 30-something single girl’s life when it’s time to make a decision: will she continue to date impossibly screwed-up men or finally settle down for a boring, yet stable, man and raise the family she’s always wanted. When she meets two men that personify this fork in the road, she finds, much to her surprise, that maybe she doesn’t have to decide after all.
Pledged Fantasy ⋄ Adventure In an exclusive sorority on an Ivy League New England campus, the sisters are expected to win the coveted Greek trophy, throw the hottest homecoming party and keep their GPA above a 3.0 -- all while mastering the basics of witchcraft, because unbeknownst to the rest of the campus, this is no ordinary sorority but one of the oldest covens of witches. An awkward and unassuming new pledge has a hard time accepting that she’s a witch, and an even harder time accepting that she’s the witch to save all witches.
STEPMOMS Comedy ⋄ Drama When three very different stepmoms come together at a disastrous child’s birthday party, they find support and commiseration as they attempt to navigate the world of stepchildren, first wives and the condescending social hierarchy of the other moms.