Joe is the musical director & supervisor of the smash hit musical Operation Mincemeat.

OPERATION MINCEMEAT is runnning at the Fortune Theatre in London’s West End & at the John Golden TheatrE on Broadway

For his work on Operation Mincemeat Joe was nominated for The Stage Debut Award for Best Creative West End Debut and the Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution (with orchestrator Steve Sidwell).

Other recent credits include Associate Musical Director for Spring Awakening at the Almeida Theatre and Musical Director for Rags at the Park Theatre and on its London Cast Album.

Joe has twice won the Off West End Award for Best Musical Director, for his work on Rags at the Park Theatre and for The Rink at Southwark Playhouse.

He works extensively with writers of new British musicals, helping develop shows from workshop into performance.

Joe’s musical / vocal direction credits include:

• Operation Mincemeat - Fortune Theatre / Riverside Studios

• A Christmas Carol - Rose Theatre Kingston

• Rags - Park Theatre

• P.S. I’m a Terrible Person - Cockpit Theatre

• The Station Master - University of Chichester

• Wasted - Southwark Playhouse

• The Rink - Southwark Playhouse

• My Fair Lady - The Mill at Sonning

• 35mm: A Musical Exhibition - The Other Palace

• Superhero: A One Dad Musical - Southwark Playhouse

• The Events - UK & US Tour / Queen Elizabeth Hall

• Assassins - Pleasance Theatre

• Side by Side by Sondheim - Headliners Club

Credits as associate / assistant MD include:

• Spring Awakening - Almeida Theatre

• Ghost Quartet - Boulevard Theatre

• Guys and Dolls - Sheffield Crucible

• Love is Only Love - The Other Palace

Joe has also been MD for student productions of Sweet Smell of Success, Sister Act, Cabaret, Me and My Girl, The Hot Mikado, The Last Five Years, The Witches of Eastwick, Bare: A Pop Opera, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

In 2014, Joe played the role of Professor Willard in David Cromer’s acclaimed re-imagining of the Thornton Wilder play Our Town at the Almeida Theatre.

During the run, he curated a charity cabaret at the Almeida, featuring the cast of Our Town, including Annette McClaughlin, Anna Francolini, Richard Lumsden, Rhashan Stone and David Cromer. 

Joe’s other cabaret MD work includes concerts and open mic nights at the Phoenix Artist Club, and two star-studded concerts at the Other Palace: Crazytown: The Musical World of Ryan Scott Oliver, and Adam Gwon: The New American Musical, which celebrated the work of these American composers, with performances by Fra Fee, Alexia Khadime, Stuart Matthew Price, Helena Blackman, Cassie Compton and the composers themselves.

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