[8]The Bronx Queen, first in the series, won the 2016 Downtown Urban Arts Festival "Audience Award" for Gulla's sold-out performance at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater.

[9]"The Bronx Queen" was also awarded Best Comedic Script and Most Popular Show at NYC Theater Row's 2012 and 2013 United Solo Theatre Festival, respectively.

[10][11]Faggy at 50, second in the series, was awarded Best One-Man Show at NYC Theater Row's 2014 United Solo Theatre Festival.

[12]Daddy, the series' final installment had its World Premiere at NYC Theater Row's 2015 United Solo Theatre Festival.

[14] REEL WOOD, a short play written by Gulla, had its World Premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June 2015.

[19] "Sleeping With The Fish" by Joe Gulla opened the Village Playwrights' "Gay Pride and Prejudice" series in June 2016.

[20] In June 2016, Gulla's play, Fall and Rise had its World Premiere at the Carrolwood Player's "One Act Weekend" in Tampa, Florida.

[57] "Gulla delivered the entire show in Spalding Gray fashion: seated at a desk, reading the script aloud from a binder.

He modulated his somewhat raspy voice subtly to take on the roles of the various characters in the monologue, but also to give his story shape and his sentiments depth.

"[58]"His performances succeed largely because Joe Gulla comes off as such a warm and wise storyteller, brimming with good will and honest reflection.

"[59] Broadway World elaborates: [60]"Joe Gulla is a monologist in the tradition of Spalding Gray or Whoopi Goldberg or John Leguizamo.

My favorite was a story about young Joe and his friend Eva, who take revenge on a neighborhood woman by creating a graffiti mural in chalk that says STUPID FAY on the side of the bathroom in the local park.

It is a wry story that in some roundabout twists leads to a chance meeting with that greatest of graffiti artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat.