Joey Wishnia
Joey Wishnia (19**-). Actor and director.
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Biography
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He appeared in Macbeth in Maynardville in 1967. He played in The Dock Brief in Lunch Time Theatre. He performed as the Burglar in Heartbreak House in 1967 and as Foigard in The Beaux' Stratagem and Larry in Winter Journey in the same year.
Performed in It was a helluva Funeral, Applause, A Macbeth, Manners and Morals, Sagmoedige Neelsie, The Resistable Rise of Arturo UI, Gypsy, The Sound of Music, Shut Your Eyes and Think of England, Tarradiddle Travels, Kings of Rok, Three Cheers for President Charlie, The Man Most Likely To, Whose Life is it Anyway?, Who Saw Him Die?, Roar Like a Dove, The Three Little Pigs, Guys and Dolls, Woyzeck, The Wizard of Oz, 'Buckingham Palace', District Six, The King and I. He was to have performed in Adam Leslie's satirical revue Sweet Fanny Adams in 1972 but had to be hospitalised on opening night and was replaced by Cy Saks.
Directed The 65th Square (1972) and an original play Shape of Murder in Pretoria (19**).
He appeared at the Candlelight Theatre.
Awards, etc
Sources
SACD 1973; 1974; 1978/79.
Winter Journey theatre programme, 1967.
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