JOY NESBITT
Director | Writer | Musician
Written and Directed by Joy Nesbitt Performed at the New Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 Nominated for 4 Dublin Fringe Awards
Written by Ultan Pringle Directed by Joy Nesbitt Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 26 June – 6 July, 2024 An Grianán, Letterkenny, Donegal: 11 – 13 July, 2024
A short film directed by Joy Nesbitt
Written and Directed by Joy Nesbitt Performed at the New Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 Nominated for 4 Dublin Fringe Awards
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"The Knife" at Dublin International Film Festival
presented by Virgin Media Discovers
Virgin Media and Keeper Pictures
Virgin Media Discovers, in partnership with Screen Ireland, is a competition that helps new and established filmmakers and content creators get their stories heard.
The Knife will be shown at the Dublin International Film Festival in February.
A panel of industry judges have selected four winners, who have won between €35,000 and €50,000 to fund the production of their short film or documentary, which will be featured at Dublin International Film Festival and Virgin Media iPlayer.
Knife (Comedy)
Writer: Joy Nesbitt, Producer: Grace Odumosu
Ife, a young black woman goes for her first pregnancy scan, only to discover that her child is brandishing a knife inside her womb.
"Letter," a short film written by Grace Odumosu and directed by Joy Nesbitt will be shown at the Chicago Irish Film Festival on March 1st as part of the Shorts Program 2: What Others Think
"No matter how hard we try to ignore what others think there’s always that fear they could be right; or not.
Shorts in the program include: SHE SAID reJOYCE, LETTER, NEXT, WE'RE BLOOD, WORRIED, SICK, VINNY, POLISHED, #BOG, THE WILDE SISTERS"
LETTER
Molly has a letter to write but finds it easier to look for distractions and ignore the outside world. Ultimately, she puts pen to paper and finds a release for the past.
Director: Joy Nesbitt
Writer/Producer: Grace Odumosu
"Letter" at The Chicago Irish Film Festival
Keeper Pictures
PRESS
"At this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival plenty of ire was aimed at the performing arts’ current discourse on inclusion. Most driven was Joy Nesbitt’s dark comedy Julius Caesar Variety Show, about a nightmarish actors’ audition. Nesbitt’s points felt new and insightful, as a black actor (a cool-headed Loré Adewusi) was seen dealing with a white bullying director (a compellingly snide Ultan Pringle) who insisted on the one hand that colour-blind casting doesn’t work, because audiences can’t unsee race, and on the other hand that not going along with exploitative expectations of blackness is actually being artistically conservative. How depressingly elaborate these schemes are."
— THE IRISH TIMES,
"The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers"