La JohnJoseph

Education

2006: BA American Studies; King’s College, London

2009: MA Performance Design and Practice; Central St Martins, London

Work Highlights

2017 182cm Queenie HOME, Manchester, UK (Video installation) (Commissioned for the exhibition La Movida)

2016 That Girl UBS/Art Review Commission (Video Collaboration with Art Basel, Hong Kong , China Ming Wong & Bendik Giske) Alexander Geist LIVE! Boy Attic, Tokyo, Japan (Solo Performance) Fancy Him, Tokyo, Japan GEIST The Arcola, London, UK (Theatre; Writer & Performer) Gianni Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Germany (Opera; Lead Performer)

2015 Practically Royalty Southbank Centre, London, UK (Solo Performance) Alexander Geist LIVE! Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, (Solo Performance) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cue, , La Sale! Paris, France So 36, Berlin, Germany Cruise Control, Utrecht, Netherlands

2014 Cover Her Face The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, (Theatre; Lead Performer) London, UK You Are Boring International Kurzfilm Festival, (Film; dir Vika Kirchenbauer) Hamburg, Germany Dirty Looks, NYC, USA Everything Must Go ITNA, Brooklyn, USA (Novel)

2013 Je vous réserve tous mes baisers Pink Screen, Brussels, Belgium (Film: dir. Alexis Langolis) Cheri Cheri, Paris, France

2012 Boy in a Dress Oval House, London, UK (Theatre; Writer & Lead Performer) Bristol Old Vic, Bristol, UK Unity Theatre, , UK The Stand, Edinburgh, UK The Marlborough, Brighton, UK Contact, Manchester, UK Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK

2011 Jesus Has No Gender Now Tranny Hotel, Cologne, Germany (Solo Performance) Homotopia, Liverpool, UK Alexander Geist LIVE! HBC, Berlin, Germany (Writer & Lead Performer) Fake, Rome, Italy La Java, Paris, France AXA; Prague, Czech Republic ZDB; Lisbon, Portugal Queer Zagreb; Zagreb, Croatia Subway; Cologne, Germany Islington Mill; Manchester, UK The Rio Cinema; London, UK Latitude Festival; UK Africa; Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 Underclass Hero Royal Tavern, London, UK (Theatre; Writer & Lead Perf.) Oval House, London, UK Unity Theatre, Liverpool, UK What About Matriarchy? The Old Police Station, London, UK (Performance; Writer & Co-Perf.)

2009 Golden Years Tete a Tete, London, UK (Opera; Librettist) I Happen To Like New York Bistrotheque, London, UK (Theatre; Writer & Lead Performer) Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London, UK Latitude Festival, UK Leicester Square Theatre, London, UK An Illustrated History of Longing Bios, Athens, Greece (Theatre: Co-writer & Lead Perf.) School of Fine Art, Athens, Greece Infinite Variety The New Players Theatre, London, UK (Theatre; Co-performer)

2008 Weimar New York MoMA, San Francisco, USA (Theatre; Featured Performer) The Spiegeltent, New York, USA Seven is the Holy Sex Studio Gallerie, ST ST, Berlin, Germany (Performance; Co-writer & Co-Perf.) My Dick is Just a Metaphor ActArt, London, UK (Performance; Writer & Lead Perf.) Notorious Beauty Dixon Place, New York, USA (Solo Performance) The Marsh, San Francisco, USA Wise Fool, Santa Fe USA

2007 Vissi d’arte The Loft, New York, USA (Solo Performance) Galapagos, New York, USA The Royal Opera House, London, UK Teacher’s Pet Galapagos, NYC, USA (Solo Performance) Belmont Burlesque, Chicago, USA Jackie Beat, LA, USA Dottie Lux, San Francisco, USA EuroPride, ,