Joe is one of our Apprentice Producers. He will be working with Cycle Song.
Joe is a poet, event promoter, stage manager, editor and creative facilitator based in Sheffield. He is the founder of the live literature organisation Word Life, which puts on events featuring some of the biggest names in UK performance poetry at some of our region’s top venues. Joe also edits the Word Life section in Now Then, a Sheffield magazine, and has edited the Signposts Born Listening anthology. He has extensive experience of running writing workshops at every level from primary to university and believes passionately in the power of the spoken word to educate, inform and entertain.
Cycle Song
Proper Job Theatre Company and Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir join forces to celebrate Scunthorpe, cycling and an unsung local hero. Albert ‘Lal’ White was an extraordinary man, working in the back-breaking steelworks by day and an Olympic cyclist in his spare time. Lal symbolises the spirit and determination it takes to rise above the ordinary,...
Cycle Song
This July, the whole of Scunthorpe will come together for The Brumby Bash, a big free festival of cycling, arts and sport centred round a brand new opera to celebrate Scunthorpe's rich cycling history and unsung local hero Lal White. Cycle Song is written by Ian McMillan, composed by Tim Sutton, and involved a community...
Apprentice Producers
We’re pleased to welcome some of the most talented budding producers in the region, who will be working with us and our projects as part of a new apprenticeship scheme for Yorkshire that offers the unique opportunity to work alongside our producing team on some of our 2012 projects. We’ll be providing them with training,...
