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

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

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

"The Gender Joker 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 Hateley is a highly skilled performer. An androgynous appearance adds magic to ‘herms’ performances in which transformations unfold layer upon layer of gender constructions. Is he a he? Is she a he? Is he a she? Is she a she? Joey interferes with our assumptions and speculations, leaving the audience unsettled, entertained and curious." (Diane Torr, co-author Sex, Drag and Male Roles; Investigating Gender as Performance (2010) published by University of Michigan Press).

“Continuing to press the personal into political service using performance as a consciousness raising tool, Hateley mixes the factual with the fictional in making explicit the impact of discourse on the bodies, lives and identities we inhabit”. (Deirdre Heddon (2008) Autobiography and Performance, Joey Hateley, ‘The Endurance of the Personal’. Palgrave MacMillan, Hampshire & New York).

TransAction Theatre Company creates ‘Performance from the Periphery’ that responds to, and reflects the diversity within contemporary culture. TransAction Theatre Company creates innovative, issue-based, experimental performance projects of the highest quality through the creation of inclusive culturally diverse multi-art-form performance. TransAction collaborates with diverse communities, artists and organisations to create a multi-disciplined programme of socio-political cutting edge theatre projects. TransAction runs artistic and participatory cultural exchange projects that explore the ways in which we understand our own identity community and our place in the world. TransAction’s work focuses on issues of identity, empowerment and inclusion utilising theories of social change, theatre of liberation and politics of allegiance. TransAction’s uses creative exchange and exploration to build interconnection and understanding between different disciplines contexts and people.

Joey Hateley is the Artistic Director of TransAction who performs at a variety of events across the world, devising socio-political interdisciplinary performance in collaboration with a diverse range of organizations. Joey is a theatre practitioner, writer, director, educator and art-activist who has performed and worked with trans adults and vulnerable young people in Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Ecuador, India, Namibia, Peru, Quito, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, USA and the UK. Joey is a trans-feminist experimental theatre artist, who creates innovative transformative cross-cultural performance work that focuses on issues of identity, diversity, inclusion and empowerment. Joey runs a wide variety of projects for theatres, conferences, cultural events, training for organizations, specific interest groups, artists, actors and university students.

Joey Hateley
AKA The Gender Joker
TransAction Theatre Company
‘Performance from the Periphery’
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