Joe Chimi

Joseph Anthony Chimi, Jr. grew up in Malden, Massachusetts where he graduated high school in 1982. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for three years before dropping out for academic reasons. After a year back in the Boston area, he decided to return to the Pioneer Valley where he worked in the supermarket business as a cashier and baker for twelve years. He began appearing in local community theatre productions in 1995. In 1996 he met his future wife Tammy who soon began undergraduate studies at UMass Boston. The following year, he moved back to the Boston area to be with her where he continued to work as a baker. He completed computer training in 1998 and soon landed a well-paying data entry job. In January of 1999, the couple moved back to Western Massachusetts where they still live.