Joy (Un)Sorted: The Life and Work of Joy Coghill


1960	Directs Britten's opera, Noye's Fludde, Vancouver International Festival. Myra Benson directs the children and John Avison conducts.
1961	Puck in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vancouver Festival.	Joy as Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream Photo by Franz Linder
1961	Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, San Francisco Opera Company.
1961	Alice in The Evening Colonnade, CBC Radio Vancouver Theatre.
1962	Receives the Koerner Foundation grant to travel to Stratford, Ontario to study with famed voice teacher Iris Warren.
1962	Stars as Emily Carr in The Heart of the Thing, CBC Television Discovery.
1962	Mary Jacobi in The Third Day, CBC Radio Wednesday Night.
1963	Receives the Canadian Drama Award for “service to the theatre”.
1963	Receives Canada Council grant to travel to Europe to observe children's theatres.
1963	Jocasta in Sophocles's Oepidus Rex, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
1964	Directs Henry Gheon's Christmas in the Marketplace, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
1964	Alice in The Dance of Death, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
1964	Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, CBC Radio Sunday Night.
1964	Volumnia in Coriolanus, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
1964	Clare in Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit, UBC's Frederick Wood Theatre. Director: Klaus Strassman.
1965	Emily Carr in The Heart of the Thing, CBC Television Camera West.
1965	Directs The Country Wife by William Wycherley, UBC's Frederick Wood Theatre.
1965	Directs The Tunnel of Love by Joseph Fields, Penticton Summer Theatre.
1965	Directs Androcles and the Lion by Aurand Harris, Holiday Theatre.
1965	Directs Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
1965	Directs William Wycherley's The Country Wife, UBC's Frederick Wood Theatre. Design by Darwin Reid Payne. Music by Bill Henderson.
1965	Agatha in The Family Reunion, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
1966	Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, UBC's Frederick Wood Theatre. Director: Klaus Strassman.
1966	Mrs. Castleton in Big Soft Nellie by Henry Livings, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Malcolm Black.
1966	Directs Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing, National Theatre School of Canada.
1967	Birth of third child, David Michael John.
1967	Becomes the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre's first woman artistic director (1967-69).
1967	Awarded certificate of merit, Canadian Confederation Centennial Committee of BC.
1967	Receives Canadian Centennial Medal.
1967	Directs George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
1967	Produces Premiere of George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: George Bloomfield.
1967	Directs Britten's Noyes Fludde in Ottawa with Nicholas Goldschmidt conducting.
1968	Directs George Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
1968	Directs Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
1968	Directs Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Frances Hyland and August Schellenberg, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
1968	Establishes a second stage at the Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver for new and experimental work. Directs a new play, The Visitor by Betty Lambert, and Edward Albee's Tiny Alice.
1969	Produces George Ryga's Grass and Wild Strawberries, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Original score performed live by The Chilliwack. Director: Don Ecclestone.	August Schellenberg, Frances Hyland, Joy Coghill & Prime Minister Trudeau © John Evans Photography Ltd
1969	Produces and acts in George Ryga's Ecstasy of Rita Joe. This was the only original Canadian work at the Opening Festival of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. All Canadian premiers were in attendance, as was the Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
1969	Receives a Canada Council travel grant for five weeks to assess new works being done in both adult and children's theatre in England.
1969	Moves to Okanagan Valley across the lake from playwright George Ryga.