JOYCE KULHAWIK

JOYCE KULHAWIK, best known as the Emmy Award-winning Arts and Entertainment Critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as a critic, arts advocate, motivational speaker, and three-time cancer survivor all over New England.  

Kulhawik is President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the Boston Online Film Critics Association. Kulhawik has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Grammys. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted syndicated movie-review programs with Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin.

Kulhawik holds an honorary doctorate in communications from her alma mater Simmons College, and has an endowed scholarship in her name at the Berklee College of Music. She received the N.E. Emmy’s 2010 Governor’s Award for her distinguished career, and in 2007 was an inaugural inductee into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She also moonwalks and yodels. Look for her reviews online at JoycesChoices.com.