Fast Five Profiles

Right in the engine room of Penrith Performing & Visual Arts you’ll find Dave Garner, our Business Manager, keeping the wheels turning on the business, people and logistics side of both The Joan and Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. We caught up with Dave to shoot the breeze on his day-to-day and daydreams. […]

What do you most want people to know about The Divine Miss Bette? I want folks to know what a faaaabulous night out it will be. Lots of laughs, great music and plenty of foul behaviour. What’s not to love! What’s your favourite Bette Midler moment? It would have to be the ‘blood clot’ moment […]

Jessica Foreman is a young musician who at age 10 is already composing beautiful pieces of music. Jessica composed a brilliant piece to be featured across our Kids at The Joan programs as part of the young composers project earlier in the year. We caught up with Jessica and gained some insight into her everyday life. Describe a […]

The Joan’s Todd Hawken helps create the worlds you enter when you step through those theatre doors. He’s a master of staging, building atmosphere through sound and lighting. We caught up with Todd to learn more about what makes him tick – from initial studies in medical science and history, to performing Mahler’s 8th Symphony […]

Nick Atkins is The Joan’s Producer, New Work; spearheading the activities of The Q – a contemporary theatre production program based at The Joan. He’s a theatre and performance maker whose play A Boy and a Bean was awarded Best Performing Arts event at Sydney Mardi Gras and was later presented at the New Theatre, Dublin. […]

Nathan Sheens is in residence at The Joan right now with his talented tapping crew, working on BPM – beatsperminute, which is on 8 & 9 May (don’t miss it). The show that has been hailed as the ‘next big thing to hit the stage’, BPM – beatsperminute intertwines tap, vocals, bass, guitar and drums, […]

This is the first in our Fast Five profiles, a series designed to give a little insight into the people who make up The Joan. We’ll begin with our CEO, Hania Radvan, who secretly hankers to write and illustrate children’s books and would love to see Paul Kelly or Paul Capsis at The Joan (perhaps […]