Joy Lusco

Joy Lusco, also known as Joy Kecken and Joy Lusco Kecken, is an American film and television director and writer. She often works with her husband, Scott Kecken. They worked on the HBO drama series The Wire on four of the show's five seasons.

Biography Lusco moved with her family as a teenager to the Baltimore area. In 1995, while attending Towson University, she met her future husband Scott Kecken.

After graduating from college, she took an internship with the Baltimore-based television show Homicide: Life on the Street. Eventually she became a freelance writer for the show. Later that year she wrote the teleplay for episode 7.08, "Kellerman, P.I.: Part 1."

In 1997 she and Scott Kecken began work on a documentary film on Baltimore's "arabbers" (produce vendors who work from horse-drawn carts). They also started a production company called The Film Foundry. Lusco and The Wire creator David Simon had been writing colleagues for Homicide. She wrote the teleplay for the eleventh episode "The Hunt". She worked as a staff writer for the season of 2002, as well. She co-wrote the story and wrote the teleplay for the fourth episode "Hard Cases". She returned as a member of the writing team for the show's third season in 2004. She co-wrote the story and wrote the teleplay for seventh episode "Back Burners".

Lusco joined the Advisory Board of the Maryland Film Festival in 2003.

She has co-written a feature film, Maker of Saints, which is set to star Erykah Badu.

Filmography Swagger (2023) Episode 2.03 "RISE + FALL" Story and Teleplay (2023) Kindred (2022) Episode 1.03 "Furniture" (2022) Writer Episode 1.06 "Celeste" (2022) Writer Motherland: Fort Salem (2020) Episode 1.05 "Bellweather Season" (2020) Writer Episode 1.08 "Citydrop" (2020) Writer Cloak & Dagger (2019) Episode 2.04 "Rabbit Hold" (2019) Writer Episode 2.07 "Two Player" (2019) Writer Tales (2017) Episode 1.07 "You Got Me" (2017) Writer Standoff (2006) Episode 1.04 "Partners in Crime" (2006) Writer We Are Arabbers (2004) Co-Producer and Co-Director Woman Hollering Creek (2004) Writer, Co-Producer and Co-Director The Wire (2002) Episode 1.11 "The Hunt" (2002) Teleplay Episode 2.04 "Hard Cases" (2003) Story and Teleplay Episode 3.07 "Back Burners" (2004) Story and Teleplay Episode 5.03 "Not for Attribution" (2008) Co-Director (with Scott Kecken) The Division (2001) Writer Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) Episode 6.23 "Fallen Heroes: Part 2" (1998) Teleplay Episode 7.08 "Kellerman, P.I.: Part 1" (1998) Teleplay Louisville (1998) Writer, Co-Producer and Co-Director