The Gender Joker is the stage name of Joey Hateley, Freelance Artistic Director and volunteer secretary as Founder of TransAction Theatre Company. Also Founder of Registered UK Charity 2005 as trustee and solo artist volunteer, working to employ marginalised artists in collaboration. As a writer-performer-deviser, director, dramaturg, educator and art-activist I create interdisciplinary work, run
a wide variety of multi-disciplined projects for theatre's, conferences, cultural events, training for organisations, specific interest groups, university students and mentor artists and actors. research and women's studies, I have collaborated with MIF, The Men's Room, IOU, Mothers Ruin, LGBT History Month, 'diRTy' integrated BSL DadaFest with InterPlay, ‘Drag King Richard III’ Bristol Shakespeare festival, Arnolfini, Trans-Scripts Verbatim, National Theatre South Bank, The Young Vic, Vital Xposure, FilmPro, RSC, Gaydio, Club Wotever Hackney Empire, Duckie Vauxhall Tavern, Stockholm PRIDE, Fresh Fruit Festival New York, Malmo Arts Festival, Montreal Meow Mix, Casa Trans Ecuador, trans sex workers in Thailand, drama workshops in India, Namibia, Peru and South Africa, devising solo with Peggy Shaw (Split Britches) Drill Hall London, Queer Contact, Homotopia, GlasGay, Oval House, Queer-Up-North, CAN, SpeakEasy The Greenroom, Apples & Snakes BBC Radio4 and toured self-devised multi-media show A:Gender across the UK, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Canada and New York. I have also worked with Ron Athey, Franko B, Stacey Makishi, Jonzi D, Vag Davis, Rikki-Beadle Blair, David Hoyle, Del LaGrace Volcano and Diane Torr.
