Joel Shatzky (November 30, 1943 – April 3, 2020) was an American writer and literary professor at the State University of New York.
His play It's a Clean, Well-lighted Place was published in 1976 at the Theater des Londoner Institute of Contemporary Arts.
The play The Day They Traded Seaver was performed in 1979 by Soho Artists under the direction of Dino Narrizano.
Other pieces have been produced in Philadelphia, San Francisco and at the Improv Theater in Los Angeles.
With his wife Dorothy, Shatzky wrote the book Facing Multiple Sclerosis: Our Longest Journey (1999).