Joe Murphy & Joe Robertson

Joe Robertson grew up in Hull and Joe Murphy grew up in Leeds. They began writing plays together at university in 2011.

Joe and Joe’s debut play, The Jungle, came from their seven months running a theatre, the Good Chance Dome, in the Calais refugee camp. It premiered at the Young Vic in 2017, before transferring to the West End, St. Ann’s Warehouse (New York), Curran (San Francisco) and Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington DC). The play received universal acclaim, the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre, and an Obie Award.

They second play, Kyoto, about the UN’s landmark climate conference in 1997, premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2024. Following its critically-acclaimed transfer at Soho Place in London earlier this year, it received its US premiere is at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at the Lincoln Center Theater, New York from 8 October to 30 November 2025. 

Joe and Joe are the Co-Artistic Directors of Good Chance. In 2021, Good Chance embarked upon The Walk, an 8,000km moving festival of welcome across Europe with a 3m tall puppet of Little Amal, inspired by the character from The Jungle.