Joan Sergay is a Brooklyn-based director of new work.

Recent projects include the world premiere of Not Not Jane’s by Mara Nelson-Greenberg at Clubbed Thumb and Broadway’s Leading Ladies, a filmed concert now streaming on PBS.

Joan has directed and developed work with Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theater, No Guarantees, The TEAM, Colt Coeur, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Westport Country Playhouse. On Broadway, Joan has served as Associate Director to Robert Icke (Oedipus), Sam Mendes (The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth) and Rachel Chavkin (Lempicka). Off-Broadway, Joan was Associate Director to Ian Rickson on Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes starring Hugh Jackman at TOGETHER/Audible’s Minetta Lane, and has also worked as associate or assistant director to Danya Taymor, Les Waters, and Lee Sunday Evans, on new plays by Will Arbery, Lucas Hnath, Susan Soon He Stanton, and Anne Washburn, among others.

As an audiobook director, Joan has directed over 180 titles for Penguin Random House, where she has worked with narrators such as Isabella Rossellini, Bob Odenkirk, Warsan Shire, and Cody Rigsby. 

Joan is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a former Resident Artist at the cell theatre, Audrey Resident at New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop Adelphi Resident, and Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.

BA in Theatre & Creative Writing: Northwestern University