After a twelve month working holiday that took her from Sydney to Perth, Joy moved to Australia from Canada. She first lived in Canberra, where she studied literature and sociology at ANU. After graduating she moved to Sydney and enrolled at Macquarie to complete an honours year in Australian literature and graduated in 2001. She worked in finance and the arts before establishing the arts and entertainment website thebuzzfromsydney, which reviews and promotes live performance and exhibition in Sydney.
She has been a member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) since July 2013. She loves the vibrant art scene in Sydney, and reporting on local theatre.
Comedian Amy Poehler has written a frank account of her life to date, including various random essays, advice and email correspondence. She spills on working on Saturday Night Live with stars like Britney Spears, her marriage and subsequent separation from …
KILL THE MESSENGER is a very raw, emotional look at dealing with loss, racism and how people can’t escape their history. Written by Nakkiah Lui, the play evolved over time: while writing the story of Paul, a young man who …
I had a quick bite before seeing MOTHER CLAP’S MOLLY HOUSE in Newtown last night, and the meal was, sadly, disappointing. The best I could say for it was that it was warm and filling. Unfortunately, on a scale of …
Presented by Ensemble, DREAM HOME is the latest offering from David Williamson. Someone I met at the show compared Williamson’s comedies to seventies sitcoms: funny, if a little predictable and out of date. I have to admit, that was a …
YASUKICHI MURAKAMI- THROUGH A DISTANT LENS is a fascinating show about Japanese photographer, businessman and inventor Yasukichi Murakami, who moved to Western Australia in 1897. He soon re-located to Broome, where he worked variously as an import/exporter, hotel manager, pearl …
LONG GRASS tells the story of living rough in Darwin, and mixes traditional Aboriginal mysticism with the harsher realities of indigenous life. The show touches on many issues facing the Aboriginal community there: unemployment, domestic and alcohol abuse, and it …
ENDINGS by Tamara Salwick, presented by Sydney Festival and Performance Space, is an electro-acoustic performance piece that is a meditation on cycles and endings that occur in peoples lives.
Saulwick was first struck by the idea when her three year …
On in the project space in the Yiribana Gallery, EMBODIMENT offers an Indigenous imagining of white colonial history that includes artwork from Christian Bumbarra Thompson, Darren Siwes, Julie Gough, Tony Albert, r e a, and Vernon Ah Kee. Each artist …
Considering Molly Meldrum’s meandering and stumbling interview style, it seems a minor miracle that he lasted on Countdown for so long (thirteen years, from 1974 to 1987). Journalist Jennifer Byrne famously described Meldrum as a ‘truly awful’ interviewer. Others described …
Sometimes it is more telling what a person doesn’t tell you about themselves when writing about their lives, as opposed to what they will. Given that John Cleese’s So, Anyway… ends in 1969 after the formation of Monty Python (with …