Biography
From the artist's bio:
"Joanna was born in London and studied acting at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She had a stellar career in film and theatre in South Africa, nominated for 11 AA Vita and Old Mutual awards for acting, comedy and cabaret and made world headlines when she played Desdemona in the first ‘non-racial’ production of Othello in that country, directed by Janet Suzman for the Market Theatre and filmed for Channel 4 in the U.K.
Joanna’s one- woman–show, "Sinksongs," was discovered by film producer Andrena Finlay of Wildheart Productions and the show has gone on to become the musical feature film Goddess, directed by Mark Lamprell and produced by The Film Company in association with Screen Australia. Joanna is the co-writer of the screenplay as well as the principal songwriter for the movie. Goddess, starring Ronan Keating and Laura Michelle Kelly is due for release by Village Roadshow in Australia and internationally in 2012
Joanna moved to Sydney, Australia in 1997 where she re-focused her career towards songwriting and musical theatre writing. Joanna’s new stage musical Every Single Saturday for which she wrote the music, book and lyrics, went on tour in 2010, supported by a grant from the Australia Council for new musicals, and is now opening the Glen Street subscription season in 2012, produced by Les Currie and with an all-star Australian cast.
In 2008 she wrote, performed and recorded the one woman show 12 Shoes, pictured, which played extensively in Sydney and her new album, The Piano Diaries, which accompanies her show of the same name, was released in Sydney on the 6th November, 2011, and is available on itunes and cdbaby .com in November 2011.
Over her career Joanna has written 3 musicals and 9 one-woman shows, all of which have been performed on the professional theatre circuit in Australia and South Africa."
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