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Joe Tripician is an award winning Producer/Writer/Director, and a Published Author.

Joe's humor book, "The Official Alien Abductee's Handbook", was published by Andrews and McMeel in 1997. Author and Futurist Robert Anton Wilson called it: "The funniest book I've read since the Warren Report." He wrote, recorded and performed an alien song with the legendary Jeff Buckley.

In May of 2002, Joe performed in his one-man play, "Balkanized at Sunrise", based on his 1997 trip to the Balkans.

Joe spends his time between New York and Brazil with his wife and two daughters.