About Joe

Joe Montaperto, a native of Brooklyn and Roselle, NJ, studied acting and improv in New York, graduating to stage and screen work before embarking on the comedy circuit in the edgy, crack-riddled New York City of the 1980’s. He later applied his training to his one man show, Four Degrees of Disconnection, performing in theaters in and around the city between 1999 – 2001, before burning out and heading to the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle for some serious soul searching. An avid traveler and spiritual seeker, Joe also prides himself on having lived in some of the worst places in the world, and still thoroughly enjoys making prank phone calls. He is the author of 4 memoirs - The Edge of Whiteness, Lovely Chaos, Nobody Gets Out Of Catering Alive, and his latest - Escape From The Planet Of The Arts.