Joanne O'Sullivan

Podcasting & screenwriting

Joanne is a multifaceted storyteller, podcaster, and writer with extensive experience across various genres of Canadian entertainment. She has written for television and podcasts, and is the creator and host of Happy Funny Amazing. Her work spans television, podcasting, stand-up comedy and live performance across Canada.

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Joanne O'Sullivan is a podcast writer and producer working at the intersection of storytelling and journalism. For Antica Productions she has written and produced documentary and interview-driven podcasts, including Exile, hosted by Joshua Melina (previously, Mandy Patinkin), Higher Ed Spotlight and This Is Wild, the WWF Canada podcast. Before that, she worked on Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson (Pacific Content) Across all of these projects, she researches and shapes stories, interviews academics, policymakers, and public figures, and brings the same editorial rigour you'd expect from traditional journalism to branded audio.

Joanne also created and hosts the Happy Funny Amazing podcast where guests share their funniest, happiest, and most amazing true stories - including 3 live episodes for the 2022 Meighen Forum at the Stratford Festival.

Exile - Hosted by Mandy Patinkin
(Writer and Producer)

Trailblazers - Hosted by Walter Isaacson
(Writer and Producer)

Higher Ed Spotlight - Hosted by Ben Wildavsky
(Producer and Editor)

Happy Funny Amazing - (Host, Producer, Editor)

HFA Guests include:

Graham Green: Dances with Wolves, Colin Mochrie: Whose Line is it Anyway, Allana Harkin, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,
Jennifer Whalen: Baroness Von Sketch Show, Sean Cullen: The Willoughbys, Corky and the Juice Pigs, Michael Landsberg, Off the Record, Sick not Weak
And
Barry O’Sullivan – Joanne’s Dad! Whose episode is the most downloaded episode ever. You have to listen to find out why!

Screenwriting

Joanne’s selected credits include 2-years writing for CBC’s popular news parody show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, the ‘tween show Overruled and a stint as a contributing writer for season three of the Baroness von Sketch Show. Most recently, Joanne could be found scouring the CBC archives for their music documentary show, From the Vaults, which is currently streaming on CBC GEM. Joanne has optioned 11 of her own television ideas and is an in-demand development contributor, having worked as a creative/story consultant for Markham Street Films, DHX Media, CBC, Gordon Pinsent, Shaftesbury, Gear Shift and Amaze Films.

Joanne has worked in the live Canadian arts scene for over 15 years, across many genres, including performing stand-up from Vancouver to Toronto and improvising in four seasons of Sin City, Toronto’s popular live, improvised soap opera. Joanne has written and performed in three solo shows and her third, She Grew Funny, premiered to sold-out audiences at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, where it was the Factory Theatre Studio Patron’s Pick and one of Now Magazine’s Outstanding New Plays. She is the proud winner of a Writer's Guild of Canada award and her second one-woman show, Any Second Now, was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award.