Directing Credits include: Handel’s Theodora (Northern Aldborough Festival); Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Nevill Holt Opera); Wagner’s Siegfried, Britten’s St Nicolas (Opera North); Strauss’ Salome (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra); Stephen McNeff’s Vivienne Speziale (Retrospect Ensemble); Britten’s Albert Herring (Surrey Opera); Haydn’s Lo Cunning Little Vixed, Kodály's Háry János, Handel’s Orlando (Ryedale Festival); Mendelssohn’s The Homecoming. Britten’s The Prodigal Son (Grimeborn Festival).

Associate/Revival Director: A Christmas Carol (Old Vic Theatre); Katya Kabanova (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma); Aida (Grand Théâtre de Geneve, Houston Grand Opera); Fanciulla del West (Santa Fe Opera); Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opera North); Don Giovanni (Basel Theatre, Norwegian Opera); The Twilight Zone (Ambassador’s Theatre, Almeida Theatre).

Joe regularly works for the Royal College of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.