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Joel Beers

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Fullerton
As seen in: LA Weekly, American Theatre, Voice of OC, Fullerton Observer, Stage and Cinema, Culture OC, Orange Curtain Review
Covers:  theater, news, sports, features, politics, human interest, all of it
Writer, Reader, Explorer, Journalist, Internet ninja, Educator, Reluctant cell user, Catlover, Footsoldier in #waragainsttheimagination #question #dothework
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Awards

Orange County Press Club

2020 - Best arts and culture story

Had to write an obituary for STAGES Theatre, the place where all but a handful of my plays were first produced.

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Southern California Journalism Awards

2021 - Entertainment News

Third place (and don't tell anyone, but it's for the same story that I won first place for in Orange County...)

Orange County Press Club

2015 - REal OC

An award given out to the one story that best captures some aspect of Orange County. In this case, it was the story I may have been born to write: a trek along the path of the Santa Ana River from the San Bernardino Mountains to the ocean and all spots in between. I grew up about nine football fields from the river in Riverside.

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Southern California Journalism Awards

2015 - Environmental Reporting, second place

The Santa Ana River story

Southern California Journalism Awards

2013 - Sportwriting, 2nd place

Profile on the fascinating Muffin Spencer-Devlin.

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National Association of Alternative Weekly Awards

2012 - Arts criticism, Silver Medal

Basically second place. National award though...

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Southern California Journalism Awards

2008 - Arts Criticism first place

Don't remember what reviews I won for. But I still have the plaque!