Since writing his first full-length play, Sherbet Lemon in 1999, Joe has had professional productions at the The Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, Sherbet Lemon; Best Man Faller; Spare Prick; Actually Moving; and Bristol Old Vic, Joined at the Hip. In 2006 / 2007 he was commissioned to write two new pantomimes for Watford Palace Theatre, Cinderella and Aladdin. In 2011 his musical comedy Rhinestone Mondays undertook a Number 1 theatre tour around the UK. 2012 saw Joe’s play Oranges on the Brain produced by Delirium Theatre at the Pegasus Theatre, Oxford and at the Courtyard Theatre, London.
Written in workshop with a group of secondary school students for Sixth Sense Theatre Company, his play The Goldfish Bowl, toured over 40 schools.
Joe also runs his own theatre company, Balancing Act through which he has produced and directed his own plays including; Dancing to the Sound of Crunching Snails; A Fistful of Mondays; Fun Run; Spare Prick and in 2023, The Murmuration of Starlings. He also wrote and directed the family comedy musicals Quasimodo A GoGo; Sinbad and the Voyage of the Seven Souls; Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and Peter Pan and and the Fountain of Eternal Youth, working with brother Jim Graham who wrote the original music for these productions.
Joe wrote and performed, I Get That a Lot at the Chipping Norton Theatre as part of Paines Plough’s ‘Come to Where I’m From’ initiative.
To date Joe has 18 plays in publication through the publisher J. Garnet Miller.
Joe has also turned his writing to screenplays and is looking to progress that side of his work in the future in harmony with writing and producing his plays with Balancing Act.
For a longer read, Joe’s amusing memoir of growing up in Glasgow in the sixties Someone put a Road on our Cave is published on Amazon for you to buy virtually or as a real book.
