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Joan Ann Maynard

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Joan Ann Maynard is a British actress who has worked both on stage and on television. She has also been influential as a director, arts administrator and teacher. Her most notable television roles are as Avice in the 1975 series Within These Walls and as Beverley in the Channel Four TV comedy show Desmond's, which ran from 1989 to 1994, as well as roles in other series, among them The Bill on ITV. Maynard has additionally been involved with producing black theatre, having been artistic director of the Black Theatre Co-operative and chair of the Black Theatre Forum.

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