Hey, Jef, Here's My Headshot: JOY TILLEY PERRYMAN

Who's who in Tennessee theater? Sometimes, without a program in your hand, it's difficult to know who's playing whom-hence, our newest feature: Hey, Jef, Here's My Headshot...featuring some of the Volunteer State's best-known-or soon-to-be-known all over the freakin' world-thespians. And have you ever wondered who  the amazing photographers are who make them look damn good? We're gonna tell ya...

Today's actor/subject/model is the lovely and talented Joy Tilley Perryman photographed by Roger Ashdown.

Joy will be performing her one-woman piece, Growing Up Baptist, Bookish and Busty, on May 11 as part of the Tennessee Women's Theater Project's Women's Work 2012 at the Z. Alexander Looby Theatre. She also will be appearing in Bird in Church for Rhubarb Theater Company.

Among her other credits:

Nelle Harper Lee, Thus Spoke the Mockingbird, Tennessee Women's Theater Project's Women's Work 2011

The Exonerated, Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Christ Church Cathedral

Signs of a New Day, Amun Ra Playhouse and Metro Parks Theater Department

My First Time, Actor's Bridge Ensemble

Twink Futrelle, Dearly Beloved, Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre

Jeffrey Ellis is a Nashville-based writer, editor and critic, who's been covering the performing arts in Tennessee for more than 25 years. He is the recipient of the Tennessee Theatre Association's Distinguished Service Award for his coverage of theatre in the Volunteer State and was the founding editor/publisher of Stages, the Tennessee Onstage Monthly. He is a past fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and is the founder/executive producer of The First Night Honors, held during Labor Day Weekend, which honor oustanding theater artists in Tennessee in recognition of their lifetime achievements and includes The First Night Star Awards and the Most Promising Actors. Midwinter's First Night, held the first Sunday in January after New Year's Day, honors outstanding productions and performances throughout the state. Further, Ellis directed the Nashville premiere of La Cage Aux Folles, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and An American Daughter, as well as award-winning productions of Damn Yankees, Company, Gypsy and The Rocky Horror Show, with Ellis honored by The Tennessean as best director of a musical for both Company and Rocky Horror.

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