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Joseph Winer
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Theatre Director & Drama Teacher • Trustee at The Production Exchange • Youth Board at Park Theatre • he/him 🏳️‍🌈 www.josephwiner.co.uk
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‘And that means something. That we’re here.’

Watching a group of characters desperately searching for meaning/escape while knowing there will be no more songs because their composer has died… I thought this was brilliant. Very entertaining. Deeply moving. #HereWeAre @nationaltheatre.org.uk
Here We Are at the National Theatre. Picture taken from audience of the set. A white floor and large panelled wall, mirror panels on the side wall and a ladder. Two actors on stage. One hoovering the set.
June 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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My annual ‘I have a 2 month gap July/August and looking to fill with a directing/assistant directing project!’

LOVE:
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ work
✍️New Writing
🎭Adaptation
🎶Musicals
⭐️Work with young people + community groups

But most important, entertaining, compelling stories! HMU!
‘Joyful and Uplifting’ 4 star review West End Best Friend for Drag Baby. A blonde drag queen with comically large prop red lips in the middle of a lip sync routine. ‘Guttural laughter’ 4 star review Theatre and Tonic for I Fucked You in My Spaceship. 2 people with a look of comical concern on their faces. The Happy Prince Musical. A young man in Victoria shirt and waistcoat puppeteering the Prince’s golden head. Don’t Smoke in Bed Production photo. A young woman in grey hoodie holding onto the leg of a paper creature hanging from the sky.
March 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 20.
Book cover of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
January 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 19.
Front cover of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
January 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 18.
Front cover of Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
January 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 17.
Front cover of Different Every Night by Mike Alfreds
January 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 16.
Front cover of Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
January 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 15.
Front cover of The Viewpoints Book by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau
January 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 14.
Front cover of Girl meets boy by Ali Smith
January 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 13.
Front cover for ‘So You Want to Be a Theatre Director’ by Stephen Unwin
January 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 12.
Front cover of History of Violence by Édouard Louis
January 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 11.
Front cover of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
January 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 10.
Front cover for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 9.
Book cover for Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
December 30, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 8.
Front cover of Ulysses by James Joyce
December 29, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 7.
Book cover of A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
December 28, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 6.
Book cover of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
December 27, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 5.
Book cover of The Color Purple by Alice Walker
December 26, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 4.
Cover for Dr Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas
December 25, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 3.
Front cover of Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
December 24, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 2.
Book cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
December 22, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 1.
Cover image of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
December 21, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Gaby from Desperate Housewives saying ‘Do you have any wine?’
November 16, 2024 at 6:06 PM