Joe Camareno, a New York City native is the son of Mexican singer & composer Jose Manuel whose late 1970's hit "Eres Un Angel" (You Are an Angel) garnered composing commissions from popular Spanish language recording groups such as, Los Diablo's and Los Freddy's.

A graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York, Camareno graced the Big Apple's stages in shows like GREASE, ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOO'S NEST, RUM & COKE and an original musical review, THE GLORY OF LOVE.  He has also toured the country as the Tin Man in THE WIZARD OF OZ. 

Camareno is also an accomplished actor of the screen with starring roles on hit television shows like THE SHIELD (recurring), UNFABULOUS (recurring), ER & ROSWELL (recurring).  He also just starred opposite Samantha Morton and Jason Patric in EXPIRED, produced by Fred Roos.  Although trained in New York, Camareno was raised in Los Angeles' East Side, where he was introduced to the stage by his 5th and 6th grade teacher Helen Stringos.  She is credited with introducing the arts to the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Martha and Gabriel Gonzalez of the musical group Quetzal, among other successfull actors, dancers and musicians.  Camareno is a graduate of the famed Hollywood High Performing Arts and studied under esteemed director Jerry Melton who mentored director Frank Darabont.

Camareno has also produced several successful and critically-acclaimed theater productions in the Los Angeles area including the smash hit LOST ANGELES (also directed by Camareno) at The Lillian in Hollywood, A WEEKEND NEAR MADISON, DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER, DELIA'S SONG, EXMAGARE, Shakespeare's TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA & the runaway hit THE UNSINKABLE BISMARCK.

In the spring of 2004, Camareno joined forces with sound designer & playwright Jeff Folschinsky to form Playgrounds, Ink! LLC.  Since then they have produced several short films, audio podcasts and theater.

His recent directing project is PASIONES OBSESIONANTES / HAUNTING PASSIONS a Mexican style telenovela in English which will premiere on the web Spring 2008 on iTunes and YouTube.  It features 12, 6 minute episodes and stars Ruth Livier, Mauricio Mendoza, Erick Carrillo & Luchy Garcia.  Camareno is in pre-production for another webseries written by Livier called YLSE with an all-star cast.  He will direct and star in some of the webisodes as well as co-produce with Valdes-Wright.  He also has a comedy feature he will be directing, REVENGE OF THE BIMBOT ZOMBIE KILLERS shooting Summer 2008 and a dramatic thriller webseries with a 60 episode arc, ANGELES CREST starting production Fall 2008.  

Virgin Falls his pet project, is an audio dark comedy featured on iTunes.  He not only directs the "radio" series, he also voices several of the shows characters. Virgin Falls won the 2006 Parsec Award for Best Audio Production.

Joe Camareno is repped by HRi Talent for Commercials and DPN for Voice Over.

Camareno is one of six children.