Joy Gorman Wettels

Joy Gorman Wettels is a Partner at Anonymous Content where she produces socially impactful content for women and youth. Joy strives for authentic, accurate reflection, and real-world impact by aligning with activists and organizations through storytelling. Joy is Executive Producer on the Apple/Paramount TV series, HOME BEFORE DARK, inspired by the life of Hilde Lysiak, an internationally acclaimed 9-year-old investigative journalist. Joy developed this from inception with Dana Fox, Dara Resnik, and Jon M. Chu, who directed, and has wrapped production on season two. Brooklynn Prince stars as Hilde. She is Executive Producer on all four seasons of the hit Netflix/Paramount series 13 REASONS WHY, created by Pulitzer and Tony Winning playwright Brian Yorkey (Next To Normal) and directed by Oscar winner Tom McCarthy (SPOTLIGHT). Released in 2017, 13 REASONS WHY started a global conversation around teen suicide, bullying, and sexual violence and received 2018 Television Academy Honors for advancing social change. Joy's upcoming slate of TV and film includes a new adaptation of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE alongside Dana Fox and Paramount; I'LL BE THE ONE at HBO MAX, a Colleen McGuiness adapted YA Novel with Nahnatchka Khan directing; and an adaptation of change maker Elaine Welteroth's memoir MORE THAN ENOUGH. Previous passion projects include Lorene Scafaria's THE MEDDLER for Sony Pictures Classics, which was named Vanity Fair's #1 film of 2016 and Scafaria's directorial debut SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD for Focus Features. Her Amy Berg directed documentary THIS IS PERSONAL premiered at Sundance in 2019. Produced with 3rd wave feminist and author Rebecca Walker, it is a portrait of intersectional feminism starting at the 2017 Women's March. A fierce advocate for women, kids, and mental health in media, Joy has helped raise awareness for Crisis Text Line, It's On Us, Protect Her, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Mental Health America. She's spoken at several events including USOW, Sundance, Teen Vogue Summit, a panel for the Society for Research in Child Development, and an It's On Us call to action against sexual violence with President Joe Biden. Joy is also one of the first 200 Hollywood women at the forefront of the Time's Up movement. On behalf of 13 Reasons Why, she's accepted a Sentinel Award, Television Academy Honors and the 2018 Mental Health America Media Award. Joy has most recently been awarded The American Legion Patriot Award, For Outstanding Dedication To Veterans And Hollywood Post 43. In 2007, Joy was named one of The Hollywood Reporter's NEXT GENERATION / "35 under 35." Her early years in entertainment were spent at Miramax Films in NYC and at her own management and production shingle, where she sold the first scripts of now longtime collaborators Brian Yorkey and Dana Fox out of her apartment. She grew up in Yonkers, New York, and commuted to Barnard College of Columbia University where she produced the famed Columbia Varsity Show, her very first collaboration with Mr. Yorkey. Having spent the last 15 years working closely with the legendary Steve Golin, Joy approaches filmmaking with the honesty, devotion and tenacity he exemplified. She now understands that when he called her "relentless" it was a compliment. Joy is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy.