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Joy Fernandes has over 25 years of theatre experience both internationally as well as nationally.
His experience spans across working on stage, in films, on TV, in advertisements, writing a
book, conducting workshops, conceiving, designing & directing events, writing ad copy and
scripts!
Joy has just completed an extremely well received tour of Merchants of Bollywood directed by
Toby Gough across London and Berlin, where he played the principal character of Shantilal
Merchant. The production has also toured Australia (Perth) and Singapore and had a 17 city tour
of China.
In A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Time Supple, Joy played the lead character of Nick
Bottom and travelled successfully to perform over 250 shows (spanning more than 2 years) in
UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Verona and India.
Here is what The Guardian, UK has to say about Joy‘...And there is a magical moment in the
play when the dying Pyramus announces ‘my soul is in the sky’...it is appropriate that the line is
spoken by Joy Fernandes’ Bottom, since his performance epitomises the virtues of this
production. Fernandes has weight, dignity and the total dedication of the artisan turned actor...’
– Michael Billington, The Guardian, UK.

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