Joy Gregory came to the Chicago area as a Northwestern University student. She went onto to become one of the founding members of The Looking Glass Theater Company, as both an actor and writer/director. She is currently a television writer/producer, and has worked on shows such as Felicity, Joan of Arcadia, Jericho, The Nine, Switched at Birth, and her current show, Madame Secretary on CBS, which is about to go into a second season.