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Joanne Hartstone in the city of Adelaide - Image by Frank Lynch

Joanne Margaret Hartstone (BCA[Drama] (Hons), GradDipEd[Secondary]) is a multi-award-winning theatre maker, performer, playwright, director, producer, and presenter specializing in international theatrical collaborations, live theatre & cabaret, and immersive/site-specific events. Joanne has curated and built pop-up venues in the Adelaide Botanic Garden (Black Box Theatres) and The Queen's Theatre in Adelaide and has presented multiple seasons as a performer and producer in Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Hollywood Fringe Festival, London, New York, and Sydney. Since 2007, Joanne has been a prolific practitioner in the Australian live entertainment industry, regularly presenting work at the Adelaide Fringe. She has published two plays, The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign and That Daring Australian Girl. Joanne has won the inaugural Made In Adelaide Award in 2017, the Frank Ford Award in 2020, multiple Best Theatre and Adelaide Critics Circle Awards, and two innovation awards in 2021 for her digital theatre work, Black Box Live™, during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also a registered secondary school teacher and has been a mentor to emerging artists, including serving as a mentor for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival's 'Class of Cabaret' for three years (2021–2023).

Early Life and Education

Joanne was born on April 12, 1984, and grew up in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. She attended Vale Park Primary School and Annesley College before starting dance lessons at Debbie Thomas Dance School, later moving to Cheryl Bradley Dance Studios. Joanne graduated with Honors in Drama from Flinders University Drama Centre in 2005 and completed a Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) at the University of South Australia in 2012.

Her university theatre credits include productions such as The Rivers of China, You Gotta Have Hart, Portrait of a Woman, Hamlet, Some Girl(s), and the films UND and Crawlspace.

Theatrical Career

Early Career (2006–2009)

Joanne's professional theatrical career began with Fitting Rooms at the 2006 Adelaide Fringe, followed by performances in the 2006 Adelaide Cabaret Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2007, she moved to Sydney where she performed as Zoe, the mascot for Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. Whilst there she developed the shows Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls and Ripple Effects for the 2008 Adelaide Fringe.

She then toured the UK with Guy Masterson's production of David Mamet's Oleanna, which premiered in Adelaide Fringe in 2009 and led to a nomination for Emerging Artist of the Year by the Adelaide Critics Circle.

Centre for International Theatre (2010–2013)

Joanne co-founded the Centre for International Theatre (CIT) with Masterson in 2010, which operated for three seasons during the Adelaide Fringe. Notable performances of the three seasons include The Event, Bully, Driving Miss Daisy, Adolf, Shylock, Scaramouche Jones, Austen's Women, The Six-Sided Man, The Sociable Plover, Weights, Animal Farm and a reprisal of Oleanna.

Joanne performed the role of Annie Wilkes in the play Misery at the Bakehouse Theatre in 2011, which encored with CIT in 2012. The show received critical acclaim, and Joanne was nominated as Best Female Performer (Professional) by the Adelaide Theatre Guide in 2011/2012.

Shift to Independent Producing, Presenting, Artistic Directorship and Curating (2014–2016)

Joanne began producing under her own banner in 2014, launching with Jethro Compton's The Bunker Trilogy at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe, which won the BankSA Best Theatre Award. She continued to perform as well, including roles in films like Deadline Gallipoli and Changed Forever: The Making of Australia.

In 2016, Joanne became the Artistic Director of the Queens Theatre in Adelaide Fringe, curating a season of 12 shows for the Festival. She also continued to work at the Edinburgh Fringe, and presented under her own banner for the first time in the 2016 festival.

Notable Productions and Performanceshttps://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/404211:

• Call Mr. Robeson (Adelaide Fringe 2015)
• The Good Son (Bakehouse Theatre 2015)
• Allen Wilder 2.0 (KADM New York 2015)
• The Flanagan Collective's Babylon, Fable, and Sherlock Holmes (Adelaide Fringe 2016)
• The Storm by Liam Ormsby (Adelaide Fringe 2016)
• The Bunker Trilogy (Adelaide Fringe 2016 return season)
• Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Adelaide Fringe 2016)
• Under Milk Wood (Adelaide Fringe 2016)
• Just let the wind untie my perfumed hair...or WHO IS TAHIRIH? (Edinburgh Fringe 2016)
• All Aboard The Marriage Hearse (Edinburgh Fringe 2016)

Black Box Theatres (2017–2021)

Joanne further expanded her artistic directorship in 2017 by transforming the Noel Lothian Hall in the Adelaide Botanic Garden into the Black Box Theatre, where she curated multiple seasons and expanded the activation footprint into four more performance spaces. Joanne also produced numerous shows during this period at other venues. Her leadership in curating diverse and innovative performances solidified her role as a significant figure in the Australian theatre landscape.

Notable Productions:

• My Name is Saorise (Adelaide Fringe 2017)
• Night Creature (Adelaide Fringe 2017)
• Blink (Adelaide Fringe 2017)
• The Devil's Passion (Adelaide Fringe 2017)
• We live by the Sea (Adelaide Fringe 2017/2018)
• Orpheus (Adelaide Fringe 2018/2019/2020/2023/2024)
• A Soapbox For Democracy (Adelaide Fringe 2018)
• Your Bard (Adelaide Fringe 2018)
• Wordshow (Adelaide Fringe 2018)
• One Long Night In The Land Of Nod (Adelaide Fringe 2019)
• Dietrich: Natural Duty (Adelaide Fringe 2019/2020)
• The Archive of Educated Hearts (Adelaide Fringe 2019)
• Eurydice (Adelaide Fringe 2019/2020)
• Dietrich: Natural Duty (Adelaide Fringe 2019)
• Flood (Adelaide Fringe 2019)
• A Suffrage Soapbox (Adelaide Fringe 2019)
• Gulliver's Travels (Adelaide Fringe 2019)
• Tales of an Urban Indian (Adelaide Fringe 2020)
• Every Brilliant Thing (Adelaide Fringe 2020)
• For Both Resting and Breeding (Adelaide Fringe 2020)
• The Gods, The Gods, The Gods (Adelaide Fringe 2020/2023/2024)
• Josephine (Adelaide Fringe 2020)
• Femme (Adelaide Fringe 2020)
• Enterprise (Adelaide Fringe 2020)
• Hatch, Match and Dispatch (Adelaide Fringe 2021)
• Still Alive (and kicking) (Adelaide Fringe 2021)
• EGG (Adelaide Fringe 2021)
• Something In The Water (Adelaide Fringe 2021)
• Hatch, Match and Dispatch (Adelaide Fringe 2021)
• Myths, Legends and Fantasy (Adelaide Fringe 2021)

Solo Shows

Joanne's first solo show The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign premiered in 2017 and won several awards, including the inaugural Made in Adelaide Award and the Holden Street Theatres Award. The show garnered critical acclaim and toured globally, with notable performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, Hollywood Fringe, Sydney Fringe and Off-Broadway in New York City. The show encored in Adelaide for multiple seasons.

Joanne followed this success with another solo production, That Daring Australian Girl, which premiered at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe, celebrating the life of activist Muriel Matters. This show also toured to Edinburgh and London in 2019, and returned for the 2019 Adelaide Fringe.

Joanne created her third solo show The Reichstag Is Burning in 2021, as a cabaret theatre work for audiences in the Black Box Theatre and watching via livestream. The show won an Adelaide Critics Circle award, and streamed into Edinburgh and Hollywood fringes, with live screenings in Los Angeles.

Innovation and Digital Theatre (2020–2022)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Joanne adapted to the challenges of live theatre by creating Black Box Live™. The initiative began as a way to provide live-streamed performances during the restricted Adelaide Fringe in 2021, featuring 48 performances watched in 38 countries. This innovation allowed her to continue showcasing performances globally despite restrictions. The Black Box Live™ digital platform earned two innovation awards in 2021, including the prestigious John Chattaway Award for Innovation, and was pivotal in bringing theatre to a global audience during challenging times.

In 2021, Black Box Live™ extended to major festivals, streaming shows into the Hollywood Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe. Notable productions, such as EGG, Spaces Between Us, The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign and The Reichstag Is Burning, were part of the program, further establishing Joanne's digital theatre platform as an award-winning initiative.

For Adelaide Fringe 2022, Black Box Live™ produced four new shows for on demand viewing - Tracy Crisp's trilogy You Can't Hide In The Desert and Dr Lane's Prepping for Theatre. Black Box Live™ also live-streamed Lewis Major's Satori and Unfolding from the Hopgood Theatre. The other shows in the Black Box Live™ program were also available that season for on-demand viewing (including Spaces Between Us and Epilogue, The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign, Something In The Water, EGG and The Reichstag Is Burning).

Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Mentorship and Teaching (2006–2023)

Joanne's involvement with the Adelaide Cabaret Festival restarted when she performed The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign in 2018, followed by a section of her next solo work, That Daring Australian Girl, at the festival's closing Gala in celebration of the UK's centenary of women's suffrage.

From 2021 to 2023, Joanne mentored young performers as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival's Class of Cabaret program, guiding emerging artists in developing their cabaret performances. Her mentorship and contribution to the festival underscored her commitment to nurturing the next generation of performers in South Australia's arts community.

Joanne began teaching acting and drama after graduating Flinders University Drama Centre. She is a regular acting tutor at Actors Ink and was a regular relief teacher at Modbury High School until 2022. In 2021, Joanne took the position of Aboriginal Education Teacher at Modbury High School in order to work specifically with First Nations students across all school subjects.

Return to Live Theatre (2023–2024)

Following a brief maternity leave in 2022, Joanne returned to present a diverse array of shows in the 2023 Adelaide Fringe. Highlights included The Marvellous Elephant Man: The Musical (winning the Adelaide Critics Circle award) , A Place That Belongs to Monsters (winning the Best Theatre Award), and Mustard (winning an Adelaide Critics Circle Award).

At the 2024 Adelaide Fringe, Joanne continued her streak of success, presenting works across multiple venues. Standout productions included the double award-winning GRAV, winner of the Adelaide Critic's Circle Award, Blood of the Lamb, the long running fringe sensation Orpheus, which won the overall Best Theatre Award, and Wright & Grainger's next greek-myth inspired show Helios, which also secured a Best Theatre Award. Joanne also presented her first show for preschool children called Meg in the Magic Toyshop which won a Best Kids and Family Award.

Awards and Nominations

Joanne's contributions to theatre have been widely recognized, with numerous awards and nominations, including:

Winner -

• Made In Adelaide Award (2017)
• Frank Ford Award (2020)
• Holden Street Theatres Award (2017)
• John Chattoway Innovation Award (2021)
• Independent Arts Foundation Award for Innovation (2021)
• Adelaide Critics Circle Awards (2020/2021/2023/2024)
• Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Awards (2014/2019/2023/2024)
• Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Weekly Awards (2018/2019/2020/2023/2024)
• Adelaide Critics Circle Weekly Awards (2016/2019/2023/2024)
• Adelaide Fringe Best Event Weekly Award (2019)
• Adelaide Fringe Pick of the Fringe - Weekly (2020)
• Adelaide Fringe Best Kids and Family Weekly Award (2024)
• Adelaide Fringe Best Film, Digital & Interactive Weekly Award (2021)
• Best Dance and Physical Theatre - Hollywood Fringe (2021)
• Encore Producers Award - Hollywood Fringe (2017/2021)
• Combined Artist & Fringe Management 'Pick Of The Fringe' - Hollywood Fringe (2017)
• Better Lemon's Critic's Choice - Hollywood Fringe (2017)
• TVolution Best Solo Show (Female) - Hollywood Fringe (2017)
• TVolution Platinum Medal - Hollywood Fringe (2017)
• Sunday Mail Best Fringe Reboot Adelaide Fringe (2019)
• Sunday Mail Best Fringe Female Solo Performance (2018)
• Sunday Mail Best New Venue - Adelaide Fringe (2016)
• Sunday Mail Best Return Season - Adelaide Fringe (2016)
• Sunday Mail Best Collective - Adelaide Fringe (2016)
• The Advertiser Pick of the Fringe (Theatre) - Adelaide Fringe (2014)

Nominations

• Individual Award - Professional Theatre - Adelaide Critics Circle (2023)
• Emerging Artist of the Year - Adelaide Critics Circle (2009)
• Best Cabaret & Musical Theatre - Sydney Fringe (2019)
• Best Female Performance (Professional) - Adelaide Theatre Guide Curtain Call Award (2012/2017)
• Best International Production - Hollywood Fringe (2017/2021)
• Distinctive Voices Award (sponsored by 2Cents Theatre Group) - Hollywood Fringe (2017)
• Soaring Solo Artist Award (sponsored by Soaring Solo LLC & WhiteSire Theatre) - Hollywood Fringe (2017)
• Larry Cornwall Award (sponsored by Shout It Out Promotions LLC) - Hollywood Fringe (2017)
• Best Dance and Physical Theatre - Hollywood Fringe (2021)

Published Plays

• Hartstone, Joanne (2018) The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign, Edinburgh: 49 Knights, ISBN 9780993197581
• Hartstone, Joanne (2018) That Daring Australian Girl, Edinburgh: 49 Knights, ISBN 9780993197598

Legacy and Influence

Through her work with the Adelaide Fringe, Black Box Theatres, Black Box Live™ and international productions, Joanne Hartstone has made a significant impact on both the local and global theatre scene. Her commitment to mentoring emerging artists, her innovative approach to digital theatre, her innovative curation and international collaboration, and her dedication to bringing diverse theatrical experiences to audiences worldwide underscore her status as a key figure in contemporary theatre.