​Hello! I’m Joanne and I am a Champion Tea Drinker & a professionally trained actor experienced in stage, film, TV & voice-over.

I am co-artistic director of Anvil Productions with Rebecca Lister.  We create new work together and laugh a lot.  I have a strong interest in multi-form work and often devise & collaborate with artists in visual art, film, dance & live art performance.

Performance includes: Melbourne Fringe, Comedy & International Arts Festival; Castlemaine Arts Festival, La Mama, 45downstairs, Gasworks, The Australian National Playwrights’ Centre, Public Art Melbourne Biennial Lab, FOLA Melbourne and MONA FOMA, Tasmania.  
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I have produced & performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Gilded Balloon) & worked with U.K. companies including the British Russian Theatre, Camden’s People Theatre & ROAR Festival.

My co-adaption to stage, & multi-media one-woman performance of Dorothy Porter’s ‘The Monkey’s Mask’, was enthusiastically endorsed by the author & toured  Australian arts & writers' festivals over a five year period.
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I am committee member with the wonderful folk at the  Victorian Actors' Benevolent Trust.

I hold a Diploma of Arts - Small Companies & Community Theatre, a Masters of Primary Health - Palliative Care, and have been known to make hats!