TransAction Theatre Company

Joey Hateley is Artistic Director of TransAction Theatre Company who collaborates with diverse artists to create a touring programme of high quality experimental multi-art form queer-feminist performance. TransAction’s vision is to create a ‘Performance from the Periphery’ that continually responds to, and reflects the diversity within contemporary culture. TransAction, runs a wide variety of participatory projects, workshops and training for business’s, young actors, artists, conferences, and specific interest groups. Joey performs at a variety of different kinds of events across the world in non-theatre spaces, conferences and performance events. Joey also specializes in gender power and diversity workshops, devising socio-political work, Experimental, Physical and Forum theatre. Joey is an MA graduate from Lancaster University who has taught a wide variety of socio-political educational theatre workshops for the last ten years with a wide variety of organisations.


During their Incubation TransAction completed a three week run at Oval House, a week at Contact and a nine venue tour in Autumn 2004 with their show A:Gender. They used their PANDA Incubation to help with strategic planning, set up a Board of Management, register with Companies House, and the Charities Commission, create a database of interested venues nationally and internationally.


"Joey Hateley is a very talented performer... the most willing I have ever met to put their body on the line" Peggy Shaw

“Image subversion at its most political and sexy!" Chloe Poems

"Joey Hateley could be the next Jean Genet" Vaginal Davis

"Gender Joey is a shooting star! Style, talent and panache combines to not only educate and entertain but illuminate what could otherwise be a dark and dreary political passage" Del LaGrace Volcano

Joey@TransActionTheatre.Co.uk
http://www.TransActionTheatre.Co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/TransActionTheatreCo