JOYOUS GARD
Hello and welcome to Joyous Gard, a brand new company that we've set up for one very simple reason: we love theatre and we want to make it.
We believe in protecting stories and putting our focus on the audience. We believe that the process of making theatre is a privilege but should never be a luxury. Making theatre can be a wonderful adventure where everyone is treated fairly. We aim to make a space where artists can share ideas, and where actors are given opportunities above and beyond their conventional casting brackets.
Most of all, we believe in the magic that happens when audiences and actors come together to share a story, the thing that happens in the room. We saw it happen when we were children and were lucky enough to go to the theatre, and we haven't stopped chasing it since. Live theatre can transform our lives and the way we see the world onstage and off. At the very least, it can give us all a great night out.
This is Joyous Gard's first year and we have a slate of productions developing that we can't wait to tell you about.
We're delighted to announce that our inaugural production will be Crocodile, a brand new play by Joe Eyre, which will run as part of VAULT Festival 2017, 1st - 5th February.
More exciting news will follow soon, please keep in touch with us for updates. See you at VAULT!
ABOUT
JOE EYRE
Co-Director
Joe is an actor and writer.
He trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and then began work as an understudy in the Wyndham's Theatre transfer of Mike Bartlett's King Charles III under the direction of Rupert Goold and Whitney Mosery.
Joe has just finished performing in a national tour of the ETT/Orange Tree Theatre production of French Without Tears, directed by Paul Miller.
Other theatre credits include Three Short Plays by Samuel Beckett (Whispering Beasts, Old Red Lion), As You Like It (Creation Theatre), and Mojo (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, directed by Matt Maltby). Joe is a member of The Factory Theatre and Oneohone Theatre Company.
BETH EYRE
Co-Director
Beth is an actor, voice-over artist, producer and director.
Beth trained at Drama Studio London, and is associate producer of Mercurius Theatre Company.
Beth is perhaps best known as the voice of Antigone Funn in the podcast sitcom Wooden Overcoats, for which she also produces the live shows, and for which she has just been nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role in the 2016 Audio Verse Awards.
Theatre credits include The Awkward Ghost (Crowley & Co., VAULT Festival 2016), The Alchemist (Rose Playhouse), A Woman Killed With Kindness (Read Not Dead), The Devil Is An Ass (Rose Playhouse), The Waiting Room (Arts Theatre), Monster Hunters (Crowley & Co.), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), The Massacre At Paris (Rose Playhouse), Gut Girls (Brockley Jack), Emma (Oneohone Theatre Company, Tristan Bates Theatre).
Voice-over credits include Drayton Trench (Zut Alors), Hector VS The Future (Andy Goddard), Peace & War, Amok and Angel (Wireless Theatre Company).
FRANKIE PARHAM
Producer
Frankie is a producer of theatre, film and comedy.
Credits include the UK première of Luce by JC Lee (Southwark Playhouse, 2016), Oliver Dench’s One-Man Hamlet (Théâtre National de Nice, 2016), DENIM (various, 2014-2016), Waiting for Godot (Arcola Theatre, 2014), sketch comedy double-act Scene Selection (various, 2013-2016), Twelfth Night (UK tour, 2013), Spring Awakening (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2012), Hamlet (UK tour, 2011), Henry V (OUDS/Thelma Holt international tour to Tbilisi, Georgia, 2009) and Предложение (Anton Chekhov’s The Proposal performed in Russian, 2007).
He has also worked for the RSC (Revolutions season), Moscow’s Sovremennik Theatre, Cheek by Jowl, Shakespeare’s Globe (Globe to Globe season), Theatre Royal Plymouth, Sputnik Theatre Company, Whispering Beasts, Sovereign Arts, antic | face and the critically-acclaimed Oneohone Theatre Company.