Joyce Henderson

Joyce trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Movement work includes Alfred (Royal Opera House Studio), Mazeppa (UCL Opera), The Terminator (National Theatre Studio and ENO), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre), research at Rescen for the staging of Verdi’s Requiem at the ENO, Deborah Warner’s Fidelio (Glyndebourne Festival Opera) and Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Night Out in the West End. In Spring 2005 Joyce teamed up with Deborah Warner again for her production of Julius Caesar at the Barbican, and in 2006 for Happy Days (National Theatre). She has worked on Kafkas Dick (Watford Palace Theatre), projects at the Glasgow School of Art, 7:84, The Gate, Grimm Tales (Leicester Haymarket) and The Grouch (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Joyce is currently working with Deborah Warner on both Le Theâtre National de L'Opera Comique's production of Dido and Aeneas (a production which she also worked on in Vienna in 2006) and Death In Venice (La Monnaie De Munt) in which she also plays The Governess and Mother Courage at the National Theatre. Additionally she was the movement director for the RSC's 2008 and 2009 production of The Taming of the Shrew.  Joyce recently worked with Deborah Warner on School For Scandal for the Barbican Theatre Bite Season and Nancy Meckler on A Midsummer Night's Dream for RSC. She did Company Movement on King Lear for West Yorkshire Playhouse. She is working with Deborah Warner on Didi Et Enee for Opera Comique and La Traviata for Wiener Festwochen. Joyce is also currently working on the movement for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. She also regularly teaches and directs at The Circus Space.

For Acting credits, please see the Actresses section.