Acting Career
Joan Travell was born in 1923 in London, and emigrated to Canada in the 1940s after World War II.
She acted across Canada but has mostly acted for Halifax's Neptune Theatre. She has also performed lead roles on most of the major Canadian stages, including the Centaur Theatre, the National Arts Centre, the Belfry Theatre, the Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Calgary, the Shaw Festival, the Canadian Stage and the Manitoba Theatre Centre. She also performed on television, in film, on radio and in the recording industry.
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