Event overview
Joy Elias-Rilwan
JOY, IT'S NINA
5 February 2014 - 6.15pm
The Performance Research Forum is a meeting ground between contemporary practitioners, researchers, students and staff in the college as well as the general public via a programme of cutting edge talks, events and performances.
JOY ELIAS-RILWAN is a practicing Buddhist, a member of SGI UK since 1994.
She appeared in SALLY POTTER'S THE GOLD DIGGERS!, her first feature film whilst still training at Dartington College of Arts. On graduating she attended a workshop given by MIKE FIGGIS who invited her to join THE PEOPLE SHOW to do site- specific multi media experimental productions internationally. After 3 years she left to create the first of her ONE WOMAN SHOWS which opened at the Old Red Lion Theatre & The Meilk Weg Theatre in Amsterdam. A season at the Royal National Theatre afforded her first Shakespeare experience in A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS' DREAM, whilst also creating the role of a student nurse, one of the leading characters in the last year of the BBC soap ANGELS. Her other theatre roles vary from LADY BRACKNELL in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST to the lead in HIGH LIFE at the Hampstead Theatre which won her a best actress award. She was seen as the co lead opposite Leslie Grantham In Zenith TV filmed crime series 99-1 and on the big screen in THE SECRET LAUGHTER OF WOMEN with Colin Firth. Her many voice-overs & radio work including commercially produced Talking Books (includes HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) as well as serialised reading of CHANGES by Ama Ata Aidoo for the BBC. She has just played the lead part of the mother in AJ Taudevin’s SOME OTHER MOTHER at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
The event takes place in the George Wood Theatre, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW, at 6.15pm, hosted by Anna Furse.
Entrance free of charge, but booking is essential.
Email d.louzioti@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Feb 2014 | 6:15pm - 8:00pm |
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