1980 - 1989
1980
Madame Arkadina in Anton Chekhov’s
The Seagull, Globe Theatre, Regina. Director: Brian Way.
Marjorie in Just Between Ourselves by Alan Ayckbourn, Summer Theatre White Rock. Director: Pat Armstrong.
Nellie, Daniel, Emma and Ben, television, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Broadcast of a radio play, Yes or How do you convince an Israeli? on CBC’s The Hornby Collection by Jana Veverka. Written by Joy Coghill in the mid 1970’s, this play was translated into Hebrew by Shimon Levy and produced for Israeli radio in the late 1970’s. In 2005, Yes was subsequently published in Israel in An Anthology of Canadian Plays in Hebrew edited by Prof. Shimon Levy.
Joy in The Seagull
1981
MA!, by Eric Nichol, New Play Centre, Vancouver. Director: Pamela Hawthorn. It had a Kamloops Theatre premiere and a tour through Alberta and B.C. The production was also at the Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver and was filmed as a CBC Television special (1983). Director Phil Keatley.
Sarah Bernhardt in John Murrell’s Memoir, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary.
Joy (R) with the real Ma Murray
1982
The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney, Belfry Theatre, Victoria. Director: James Roy.
Title role in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All To You by Christopher Durang, Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary. Director: Ken Dyba.
1983
Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Walter Learning.
Lead in Change of Heart, directed by Anne Wheeler, National Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Harriet in
The Sun Runner, by Ken Dyba, Toronto Free Theatre. Director: Guy Sprung.
Margaret in
Richard III, Globe Theatre, Regina. Director: Brian Way.
Joy and Ken James in Change of Heart
© National Film Board of Canada
1984
Narrator of documentary Japanese Woman. Director: Kalle Lasn.
Lidya Vasilyevna in
Do You Turn Somersaults?, by Aleksei Arbuzov, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary. Director: Douglas Riske.
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1985
Baba in
Tsymbaly by Ted Galay, New Play Society, Vancouver. Director: Jane Heyman.
Mrs. Hardcastle in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, Avon Theatre, Stratford Festival, Ontario. Director: David Williams.
Plays Albertine at 60 in Michel Tremblay’s Albertine in Five Times, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto. Translation: John Van Burek and Bill Glassco. Director: Bill Glassco. View Photo
She Stoops to Conquer Photo by David Cooper Courtesy of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Archives
1986
Receives the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in arts and culture.
Edna in Betty Lambert's Jennie’s Story, National Arts Centre, Ottawa. Director: Bill Glassco.
Movie Nobody’s Child, Gaylord Productions Inc. Director: Lee Grant.
Red Serge, episode called Apron Strings, CBC Film Series. Directors: Myrna Cobb and John Holdstedt.
1987
Charlotte in TV Movie Christmas Comes to Willow Creek. Director: Richard Lang.
Dede Wilkins in movie Blue Monkey aka Green Monkey aka Insect (USA: video title) aka Invasion of the Bodysuckers (UK: video title). Director: William Fruet.
Airwolf, Season 1, episode 15, Flowers of the Mountains, Atlantis Skyline Productions Inc. Directors: Patrick Corbett and J. Barry Herron.
Frieda in Song of This Place, by Joy Coghill, Vancouver East Cultural Centre following a tour of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Directors: Robert More and Roderick Menzies.
Song of This Place.
Painting: Emily Carr
Photo: David Cooper. Cover: Jodi Armstrong
1988
Elizabeth in My Memories of You, by Wendy Lill, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Director: Kim McCaw.
Marthe in
Summer by Edward Bond, Canadian Stage Company, Toronto. Director: Neil Munro.
1989
Rebecca Nurse in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Citadel Theatre, Calgary. Director: Robin Phillips.
Mistress Quince in Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream, Citadel Theatre. Director: Robin Phillips.
Dual Solitudes, an Israeli anthology of poetry, both Arab and Jewish. This was a joint reading by Joy Coghill and Dr. Shimon Levy, a director and head of the Theatre Department of the University of Tel Aviv. They appeared in Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria.