Joe Sutton

{{short description|American playwright}}

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Joe Sutton is an American playwright.{{Cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/sutton-joe.php|title=Joe Sutton|website=www.doollee.com}} He teaches playwrighting at Dartmouth College. He is the son of actor Frank Sutton, most famous for playing Sgt. Carter on Gomer Pyle – USMC.

His play Voir Dire opened in 1995 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. The play received attention after the O. J. Simpson murder case and the sequestered jury deliberating a case with strong racial overtones and divisive social implications.{{citation|last=Berson|first=Misha|year=1996|title=American Theatre|location=Sandusky, Ohio|page=6|publisher=Theatre Communications Group|issn=8750-3255}}. His play Complicit, was directed by Kevin Spacey and premiered at The Old Vic in London on January 3, 2009.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/jan/03/complicit-old-vic-london|location=London|work=The Guardian|title=Theatre preview: Complicit, London|first=Mark|last=Cook|date=January 3, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.oldvictheatre.com/whatson.php?id=50 |title=The Old Vic|accessdate=2009-01-16|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219041348/http://www.oldvictheatre.com/whatson.php?id=50|archivedate=2008-12-19}}