Northern Irish actress,  nominated for Best Actress UK at the New Renaissance Film Festival, London in 2019, currently recording voiceover at Pinewood and Shepperton for a major videogame.

Just finished Screenwriting Goldmine’s The Tribe 6 TV scriptwriting Scheme, founded by Phil Gladwin, having crafted a 60 minute TV pilot drama about a woman with Synaesthesia and an impossible dream. 

Has performed at The Royal Court Theatre, The Nuffield Theatre, The Riverside Studios, Clwyd Theatre Cymru, The Liverpool Empire and most recently at The reopening of The Leicester Haymarket Theatre in Sandi Toksvig’s adaptation of ‘Treasure Island’.

Established fassagh films in 2017 and in 2019 won Best UK Short Film for her short film, ‘George & The Dragon’, directed by award winning director, David Anderson, at the Oxford International Film Festival.

Featuring Don Gilet (Eastenders, Holly City, The Loch) as George and Joyce as the First Minister of NI (aka the dragon of the title!) it also received an Honourable Mention plus nominations for Don Gilet for Best Actor UK and Joyce’s own nomination at the NRFF London 2019.

Clips can be seen on Joyce’s showreel plus the 07 Episode webseries  'Chalk And Cheese' here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx1rBy3s6pkEA3SZLD2sVzHIdTSEbN9QH

Has written and directed twice for The Miniaturists @The Arcola, is a co founder of Short(s)Wave, an independent initiative of ex members of thr 2014 Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting Group and was a founder member of The Watermark Collective Script Reading Group.

Longlisted: Papatango New Writing Prize 2017 & C4's Coming Up 2015.

Reached final 18% of BBC Scriptroom 11 (Comedy) in 2016.

Granted a residency at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland.

Work History

Education

Skills

• Acting
• Scriptwriting
• Visual Storytelling
• Directing
• Games
• Music
• Music Performance
• Narrative
• Playwriting
• Screenplays
• Script
• Script and Screenwriting
• Script and Story Development
• Short filmmaking
• Singing
• Theatre
• Voice
• Voice-over
• webseries