Joe Hand

Rehearsing for Pirates of Penzance 2014

Bio

Joe is a third year zoology student at Southampton, who kids himself that he'll be able to leave Southampton when he graduates and seek alternative arrangements in London, where the pavements are gold and only sometimes chewing gum. He also sometimes refers to himself in the third person. He was the LOpSoc secretary for the 2014/2015 year, and ordinary member for the 2015/2016 year. He has sung for 7 years in a choir, and for 3 of those was part of an a capella group. He owns 37 tortoises, a ferret, a St. Bernard, a cat, two chickens and three preying mantises called Haley, Ophelia and Beans. He guesses he'd probably like to end up living in the Lake District or something. Joe died in March 2014 when he was mercilessly shaved off of the face of Ulf, his host organism.

History of Roles

Performance	Role
HMS Pinafore 2015	Director
Sweeney Todd 2014	Toby
Sweeney Todd 2014	Secretary
Pirates of Penzance 2014	Pirate King
La Retraite Swan School Nativity Play, c. 1998	The bitchinest innkeeper you ever did see.

Major Achievements to date

• Best Male Performer for playing the Pirate King in the Harrogate run of Pirates of Penzance.
• Didn't die for twenty whole years.
• 3867 link karma on reddit - it's not much but it's mine.
• Makes a mean sausage and bean casserole.
• Over 40 Geohashing ribbons.
• Logged over 3500 hours on Guild Wars between the ages of 12 and 17, and inadvertently proved that the number of friends you have is directly inversely proportional to the number of Fissure of Woe beach farming runs you can do in an hour.
• It's 9.
• Successfully beat gaming addiction.
• 8th level paladin.
• Once spent a whole summer learning how to make origami dinosaurs.
• Finished the LOpSoc Victorian Paralympic Pub Croquet -17 for the course.
• Spectacular beard