Joey Hateley is volunteer secretary trustee and founder of TRANSACTION THEATRE COMPANY LTD (aka The Gender Joker). Charitable Mission Statement: TransAction collaborates with diverse artists to create high quality multi-art form queer-feminist performance. Our vision is to create performance from the periphery that continually responds to and reflect the diversity within contemporary culture. Tran
sAction creates innovative, transformative, cross-cultural inclusive performance about issues of inclusion, equality, identity, intersectionality and empowerment. Our work question’s LGBT+ boxes, calling for a world beyond gender binaries, transcending borders of difference through 'intersectional politics of allegiance'. As a writer-performer-deviser, educator and art-activist who creates interdisciplinary experimental work, Joey Hateley is the freelance Artistic Director who collaborates with marginalised queer-crip artists to make accessible multi-disciplined performance projects. Joey has a BA Hon's distinction in Theatre, PGCE distinction in drama teaching and scholarship MA in Ed. Research and Gender Studies. TransAction has collaborated with many partner's, organizations and performed at venues including Hackney Empire, The National Theatre South Bank, The Young Vic London, The Everyman, The Factory International for MIF R&D, RSC, CCA, Oval House, BBC Radio4, Arnolfini, The Bluecoats, The Arena, godrag! Intl Festival English Theatre Berlin, Liverpool Playhouse Theatre, Unity Theatre. Current work in development: TransMology https://youtu.be/59ExZKTzpLI
Other collaboration's and performances have been with LGBT History Month, 'diRTy' integrated BSL DadaFest with InterPlay, ‘Drag King Richard III’ Bristol Shakespeare festival, Engendered Species devising solo with Peggy Shaw (Split Britches) Drill Hall London and Queer Contact, Homotopia, Trans-Scripts Verbatim, Sparkle, Vital Xposure, FilmPro, Gaydio, Bar Wotever, Duckie, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, IOU, Z-Arts, Stockholm PRIDE, CAN, Fresh Fruit Fest New York, Malmo Arts Festival, Montreal Meow Mix, Casa Trans Ecuador, GlasGay, Queer-Up-North, SpeakEasy, The Greenroom, Apples & Snakes, and toured self-devised multi-media show A:Gender across the UK, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Canada New York and film festivals. Joey has also worked with Ron Athey, Franko B, Stacey Makishi, Jonzi D, Vag Davis, Rikki-Beadle Blair, David Hoyle, Penny Arcade, Del LaGrace Volcano and Diane Torr. Quotes:
"Thank you to TransAction Theatre Company." Prof Stephen Whittle, OBE, FAcSS, Press for Change
"Joey Hateley is a very talented performer...the most willing I have ever met to put their body on the line." Peggy Shaw
"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
“Tender, playful, provocative, and visceral... a wonderful example of compassion and diversity in action.” Kaite O’Reilly, playwright
"Joey Hateley is a highly skilled performer." Diane Torr
“Dynamic, moving AND funny. This work has it all !” Greg Thorpe, GAZE LGBTQ+ Film Festival Director
“PHENOMENAL." Dick, Drag King History, USA+
“Really powerful and strong, showing all the different levels and layers of how drag is not just a show or entertainment; but full of depth in real life stories that not a lot of people know about - WOW!” Bridge Markland ! English Theatre Berlin
“Finally we get to tell OUR stories. We have been around forever - and always will be. Joey puts their heart and soul into performance.” Mzz Kimberly
“Gender subversion at its most political and sexy!" Chloe Poems / Gerry Potter
"Joey Hateley could be the next Jean Genet." Vaginal Davis
Media:
“Incisive and insightful work… that rips up our notions of gender and asks us to start again.” DIVA
"A stirring performer that throws some serious light on a current taboo." Time Out, London, Oval House
"Joey Hateley performs so many different identities, we don’t know what box they are in anymore!" LatinArt
Publications
"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 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, 2010, Sex, Drag and Male Roles; Investigating Gender as Performance. Uni 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 & NY). Reviews
"Joey Hateley is a brave and provocative performer who puts their heart and soul into a fine example of what theatre can do to open doors and shine light on taboos, so people can come together. diRTy is a fantastic, open hearted and challenging piece of autobiographical performance". North West End Rating: ★★★★★ by Luke Richards reviewing diRTy by TransAction with integrated BSLI at Z-arts
★★★★★ "Joey’s transition from one persona to another was remarkable; at times flowing seamlessly, at others snapping between characters with admirable speed and precision. Joey’s flexibility and diversity as a physical actor was captivating to watch, and the strands of narrative wove together creating an enthralling sensation of tension and suspense. The central figure embodied both the female and male psyche we all possess to varying degrees. Throughout the performance, Hateley juggles multiple roles, using an intricately choreographed mix of action on stage and on screen, to create and to reflect the fragmented layers representative of the human mind". Mari Elliott review's diRTy by TransAction with integrated BSLI for Disability Arts Online, The Bluecoats, DadaFest
