Joe has authored two books: CLOWN The Physical Comedian published by Bloomsbury, and DRAMA GAMES for Clowning and Physical Comedy published by Nick Hern Books. They contain exercises for helping you create original, devised material, and photos of physical comedy performers in action.

Many of the exercises are original and cannot be found in any other books. These unique handbooks are for Actors, Teachers, Directors, Improvisers, Clowns, Stand Up Comedians, Circus Artists, Musical Theatre Actors, Renaissance Players, Street Performers and Physical Theatre artists.

Both books include discussions on Play, Curiosity, Competition, Collaboration, Provocation, Prop Play, Physical Expression, Solo, Duo, Trio, and Ensemble work. The exercises explore character development, creating scenes and routines, devising theatre and working with established scripts.

The books are full of insights from an artist who has over 35 years of experience as an actor, teacher, director and designer, in venues ranging from house parties to nightclubs, cabarets and black box theatres to street performing on the plazas of Europe, from one-ring circuses to three-ring American extravaganzas, the Scottish National Opera to Shakespeare’s Globe, the Belfast Community Circus to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, the London Olympics to Wembley Stadium.