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Joan Lane
Joan Lane has worked in arts management and production for over 25 years. Starting as a choral music coordinator, she has produced concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. John’s Smith Square and St. James’s Piccadilly. She was production coordinator for BBC Radio 3’s first fully-staged Promenade Concert Opera (Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, Royal Albert Hall 1990), production coordinator for that same opera for Crusaid’s Music for Life day 1992 at the Royal Festival Hall and its producer in St. George’s Chapel Windsor for the 1994 Windsor Festival.
Since 1998 she has toured accessible and innovative productions of Shakespeare plays from her company Wild Thyme Productions, as well as finding time to assist in the production of numerous Christmas concerts in London and stage concerts in Brussels and Switzerland.
TV work includes 3 productions of the BBC’s annual Christmas gala Joy to the World. Youth choral work includes productions of La Boheme, Carmen, Madam Butterfly and Tosca at the Royal Albert Hall and Madam Butterfly on tour 1997/8 for Raymond Gubbay Ltd.
As well as mounting plays and musicals with Wild Thyme Productions, Joan also works on a freelance basis as a vocal consultant. She is an adviser to the Steering Committee of Musical Theatre Matters (MTM:UK), concerned with the writing and production of new musicals and a member of the British Shakespeare Association.
Most recently, working alongside colleagues at Bedlam Films, she kick-started the film The King’s Speech, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter and adapted from the stage play by its author David Seidler - for whom she also acted as agent. Future projects include exciting new film and theatre productions. |
