Daphne Joseph-Hackett

Daphne Joseph-Hackett was born in 1915 in Barbados.{{sfn|Banham et al.|1994|p=156}} Training as a teacher, she began her career teaching in Grenada. After eleven years, she returned to Barbados.{{sfn|Fraser|1990|p=94}} She taught Latin at Queen's College in Bridgetown.{{sfn|Banham et al.|1994|p=156}} In the 1940s, the British Council established regional offices to sponsor theatre workshops. Hackett worked with these groups, as well as later with the extramural department of the University College of the West Indies, once it was established, as a producer and organizer of these workshops.{{sfn|Banham|1995|p=77}} She was instrumental in bringing Bajan Creole to the stage, as at the time, local dialect was forbidden in public productions. When one of her students forgot the lines in a rehearsal and improvised using the local dialect, Hackett approached the headmistress and was granted approval to use Creole.{{sfn|Stafford|2005|p=110}}

In the early 1960, Hackett joined with Andrea Gollop-Greenidge, Elombe Mottley, Angela Owen, Mike Owen, Icil Phillips and Monica Procope to form the Barbados National Theatre Workshop.{{sfn|Stafford|2005|p=111}} In 1966, she co-founded, with Jamaican Noel Vaz, the theatrical productions of the Barbados Festival Choir.{{sfn|Banham|1995|p=77}} Writing pantomimes and staging the productions for the Festival Choir,{{sfn|Banham et al.|1994|p=156}} she acted as the business manager of the organisation,{{sfn|The Advocate News|1972}} taking them on tours to other Caribbean countries, such as Dominica and Guyana.{{sfn|Guyana Graphic|1972|p=2}}{{sfn|The Star|1967|p=15}} As an actress, she performed in The Brathwaites of Black Rock, a local serial,{{sfn|Banham et al.|1994|p=156}} carried on Radio Barbados. Hackett was awarded the Silver Service Star of the Order of Barbados in 1985, after having served over thirty years in developing theatre in the country.{{sfn|Clarke|2014}}

Joseph-Hackett died in 1988 in Barbados. In 1991, the Queen's Park Theatre was renamed in her honor.{{sfn|Clarke|2014}} The theatre closed in 2005, but was renovated and reopened in 2017.{{sfn|Nation News|2017}} Annually, during the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, the top honor in dramatic performance is given the Daphne Joseph-Hackett Award For Excellence in Drama.{{sfn|Clarke|2014}}

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• {{cite book |last=Banham |first=Martin |title=The Cambridge Guide to Theatre |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh/page/77 77] |year=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=978-0-521-43437-9}}
• {{cite book |ref={{harvid|Banham et al.|1994}} |editor-last1=Banham |editor-first1=Martin |editor-last2=Hill |editor-first2=Errol |editor-last3=Woodyard |editor-first3=George |editor-last4=Piccard |editor-first4=Bertrand |editor-last5=Obafemi |editor-first5=Olu |title=The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto00mart|url-access=registration |year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=978-0-521-41139-4|chapter=Joseph-Hackett, Daphne (1915-1988) |page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto00mart/page/156 156]}}
• {{cite news |last1=Clarke |first1=Sherrylyn |title=Black History Month: Daphne Joseph-Hackett |url=http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/21022/black-history-daphne-joseph-hackett |access-date=9 July 2018 |publisher=Nation News |date=26 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024191345/http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/21022/black-history-daphne-joseph-hackett |archive-date=24 October 2017 |location=Fontabelle, Saint Michael, Barbados}}
• {{cite book |last=Fraser |first=Henry |title=A-Z of Barbadian Heritage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7HfAAAAMAAJ |year=1990 |publisher=Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean) |location=Kingston, Jamaica |isbn=978-976-605-098-6}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Stafford |first1=Patricia |title=Refining "Bajan" Identity, 1930-1980 |journal=The Journal of Caribbean History |date=2005 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=102–122 |url=http://www.uwipress.com/sites/default/files/JCHVol39%231Final_with%20cover.pdf |access-date=9 July 2018 |publisher=The University of the West Indies |location=Cave Hill, Barbados |issn=0047-2263}}
• {{cite news |ref={{harvid|Guyana Graphic|1972}}|author= |title=5 new folk discs out today |url=http://www.dloc.com/CA00199969/00001/2x?search=daphne+%3dhackett |access-date=9 July 2018 |publisher=Guyana Graphic |date=1972 |location=Georgetown, Guyana |pages=1–2}}
• {{cite news |ref={{harvid|Nation News|2017}}|author= |title=Daphne Joseph-Hackett Theatre reopens |url=http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/99905/daphne-joseph-hackett-theatre-reopens |access-date=9 July 2018 |publisher=Nation News |date=23 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024191511/http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/99905/daphne-joseph-hackett-theatre-reopens |archive-date=24 October 2017 |location=Fontabelle, Saint Michael, Barbados}}
• {{cite news |ref={{harvid|The Star|1967}}|author= |title=Lively UWI Drama Seminar |url=http://www.dloc.com/UF00072476/00075/15?search=daphne+%3dhackett |access-date=9 July 2018 |volume=IV |issue=12 |work=The Star |date=8 April 1967 |location=Roseau, Dominica |pages=supplement i-ii}}
• {{cite news |ref={{harvid|The Advocate News|1972}}|author= |title=Unchained Cast off to CARIFESTA |url=http://www.dloc.com/CA00199925/00001/1x?search=daphne+%3dhackett |access-date=9 July 2018 |publisher=The Advocate News |date=1972 |location=Fontabelle, Saint Michael, Barbados}}

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