Joey is an emerging multidisciplinary designer whose practice explores opportunities for genuine, emotional human connections through collaboration and audience experience. Joey’s design process is driven by tactile ideation, memory and nostalgia, queer dramaturgy and the Sisyphean nature of politics. He has a passion for crochet, visual arts, graphic design, dimly lit rooms (so relaxing), taxidermy, journaling (only when he feels like it) and admiring old buildings. He strives to design with integrity, ensuring his work respects the people, country and cultures it depicts while taking responsibility for maintaining a sustainable work process.

His design credits include costume design for b.l.i.p.s Adelaide Fringe Festival and art department work on short film Delia directed by Madeleine Parry and production designed by Michael Turner. His NIDA credits include hypothetical design projects: set design for The Dark room, costume design for Cabaret, set and costume design for La Dispute, Mnemonic, Threepenny Opera. For NIDA play season productions: set, props and costume design, Medusa Uncut, FOEA 24, set, props and costume design , The Bleeding Tree, Dir Dino Dimitriadis: set and props design, Away, Dir Rachael Maza:  production design: NIDA TripleJ Unearthed collab, music video Hit by Polly; costume and makeup designer and standby on The Wrestle, a design short film.

Once graduating from NIDA, he aspires to make unconventional work that leaves viewers mesmerised and unsettled across stage, screen, interactive and embodied formats.

NIDA Productions

Secondments

Art Department
Rebecca (2025)

Art Department
Delia (2026)

Image credits

Image 1: Jacquie Manni
Image 2: Teniola Komolafe
Image 3: Anna Hay
Image 4: Jacquie Manni