Joanna Evans
Joanna Evans is a theatre maker, performer and playwright
Joanna from Cape Town, specializing in devised and physical theatre. She has created a number of original productions, including ‘The Year of the Bicycle’, ‘King Kong What What’ and ‘Four Small Gods’.
She also started up South Africa’s first theatre for early years company, which creates performance for children under four.
Her plays have toured nationally as well as to festivals in Italy, Germany, Iran and Réunion, and she has been a performer in residence for the African Talent Network in Cameroon.
The Year of the Bicycle' was published by Junkets Press in 2016. Joanna is particularly interested in intergenerational performance, non-human animals in performance, animacy, intersectional feminism, and post-colonial and queer theory.
