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

Most recently, Joan directed the world premiere of Not Not Jane’s by Mara Nelson-Greenberg at Clubbed Thumb. Joan has directed and developed work with Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theater, PBS, No Guarantees, Nouveau Productions, The TEAM, Colt Coeur, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Westport Country Playhouse.

On Broadway, Joan has served as the US Associate Director to Sam Mendes on The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth and the Associate Director to Rachel Chavkin on the musical Lempicka. Off-Broadway, Joan has served as the Associate Director to Ian Rickson on Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes starring Hugh Jackman at TOGETHER/Audible’s Minetta Lane, as well as the associate/assistant to directors including 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 175 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, a 2024-25 Resident Artist at the cell theatre, a 2023-24 Audrey Resident at New Georges, a 2023 New York Theatre Workshop Adelphi Resident, and a former Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. 

BA in Theatre & Creative Writing: Northwestern University