Joanna Settle

Joanna Settle is an artist and educator from the United States. She directs and collaborates on the development of world premiere theater, musicals, operas and interdisciplinary work while maintaining an appointment as Arts Professor of Theater at New York University Abu Dhabi.
== Directing Work ==
Year 	Title 	Date 	Company 	Venue Location
2022 	Departure 	September 29 - October 2, 2022 	The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi 	Abu Dhabi, UAE
2020 	Sky on Swings 	May 22 - August 31, 2020 	Digital Festival O 	Streamed
2020 	Departure 	January 24-25, 2020 	The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi 	Abu Dhabi, UAE
2019 	Lashed but not Leashed 	February 14-16, 2019 	Guthrie Theater 	Minneapolis, Minnesota
2019 	Lashed but not Leashed 	March 14-16, 2019 	Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts 	Philadelphia, PA
2018 	Sky on Swings 	September 20-29, 2018 	Perelman Theater, Opera Philadelphia 	Philadelphia, USA
2018 	Noura 	November 27 - December 30, 2018 	Playwrights Horizons 	New York City, NY, USA
2018 	Noura 	May 10-12, 2018 	The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi 	Abu Dhabi, UAE
2018 	Noura 	January - March 11, 2018 	Shakespeare Theater Company 	Washington, DC, USA
2018 	Lashed but not Leashed 	January 8-12, 2018 	Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater 	New York City, NY, USA
2017 	Lashed but not Leashed 	March 16-18, 2017 	Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts 	Philadelphia, PA
2015 	Estuary: A Mother/Artist Story 	November 1-3, 2015 	Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater 	New York, NY
2016 	The Total Bent 	May 10, 2016 - June 26, 2016 	The Public Theater 	New York City, USA
2016 	An Octaroon 	March 16, 2016 - April 10, 2016 	Wilma Theater 	Philadelphia, USA
2015 	Hands Up 	June 10-28, 2015 	Flashpoint Theater 	Philadelphia, PA
2015 	Estuary: A Mother/Artist Story 	February 4-6, 2016 	Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts 	Philadelphia, PA
2014 	Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo 	October 8 - November 8, 2014 	Wilma Theater 	Philadelphia, PA
2014 	Family Album by Stew and Heidi Rodewald 	July 1 - August 31, 2014 	Oregon Shakespeare Festival 	Ashland, Oregon
2014 	Fallujah 	March 2014 	Kennedy Center 	Washington, DC
2012 	Romeo and Juliet 	July 18 - July 29, 2012 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Rowayton, CT
2012 	Romeo and Juliet 	June 26 - July 8, 2012 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Greenwich, CT
2011 	Much Ado About Nothing 	June 16-26, 2011 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Rowayton, CT
2011 	Much Ado About Nothing 	July 5-10, 2011 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Greenwich, CT
2010 	All’s Well That Ends Well 	November 11-13, 2010 	Stanford University & Public Theater 	Palo Alto, CA
2010 	Othello 	July 2-11, 2010 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Greenwich, CT
2010 	Othello 	June 2010 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Rowayton, CT
2009 	A Midsummer Night’s Dream 	July 4-12, 2009 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Rowayton, CT
2009 	A Midsummer Night’s Dream 	June 16-28, 2009 	Shakespeare on the Sound 	Greenwich, CT
2008 	Future Me 	July - August, 2008 	Summer Play Festival at The Public Theater	New York, NY
2008 	9 Parts of Desire 	May 3-18, 2008 	Museum of Contemporary Art 	Chicago, IL
2007 	Finale: 365 Play/365 Days by Suzan-Lori Parks	November 12, 2007 	The Public Theater 	New York, NY
2007 	In Darfur by Winter Miller 	July 9, 2007 	The Delacorte Theater 	New York, NY
2007 	In Darfur by Winter Miller 	April 13-29, 2007 	The Public Theater 	New York, NY
2007 	9 Parts of Desire 	 	MASS MoCA 	North Adams, Massachusetts
2006 	9 Parts of Desire 	September 29 - November 12, 2006	Arena Stage 	Washington, DC
2006 	9 Parts of Desire 	March 18 - April 23, 2006 	Seattle Rep 	Seattle, WA
2006 	9 Parts of Desire 	January 25 - March 5, 2006 	Berkeley Repertory Theatre 	Berkeley, CA
2005 	9 Parts of Desire 	September 6 - October 16, 2005 	Geffen Playhouse 	Los Angeles, CA
2004-5	9 Parts of Desire 	October 2004 - May 2005 	Manhattan Ensemble Theatre 	New York City, USA
2003 	Beckett SHORTS 	October 31 - November 2, 2003 	The Old American Can Factory 	Brooklyn, New York City
2003 	Journey Among the Dead by Eugène Ionesco 	August 2003 	HERE Space 	New York, NY
2003 	The Trojan Women 	April 7, 2003 	New York Theatre Workshop 	New York, NY
2003 	Cascando 	January 2003 	HERE Arts Center 	New York, NY
2001 	Rockaby 	September 2001 	Around-the-Coyote Festival 	Chicago, IL
2000 	Night, Night 	December 2000 	Angelika Film Centre 	New York, NY
2000-1	Macbett 	November 2000 ­- January 2001 	Chopin Theatre, Chicago 	Chicago, IL
2000 	How to be Sawed in Half 	August - September 2000 	Athenaeum Mainstage, Chicago 	Chicago, IL
1999 	Play by Samuel Beckett 	September 1999 	Around-the-Coyote Festival, Chicago 	Chicago, IL
1999 	The Enduring Legend of Marinka Pinka 
and Tommy Atomic by Oana-Maria Cajal	July 1999 	The Theatre Building 	Chicago, IL
1999 	Blood Line: The Oedipus/Antigone Story 	March 20 - April 25, 1999 	Viaduct Theatre 	Chicago, IL
1997 	Bombs in the Ladies Room 	July - September 1997 	Yello Gallery 	Chicago, IL
1996 	The Balcony 	August - September 1996 	Chopin Theatre 	Chicago, IL
== Educational Engagements ==
Settle has taught and/or been a guest artist at undergraduate and graduate theater programs including The Juilliard School, Bard College, Cornell University, Brown/Trinity MFA, Stanford University PhD, Vilanova MA and University of the Arts. She is currently an Arts Professor of Theater at NYU Abu Dhabi.
== Career ==
2014 Co-Founder (with César Alvarez) of Polyphone Festival of New Musicals at University of the Arts
2009-2012 Artistic Director of Shakespeare on the Sound
1998-2004 Artistic Director of Chicago’s Division 13 Productions
== Awards, Fellowships and Residencies ==
2022 Resident Artist at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
2021 NYU Abu Dhabi Faculty Distinguished Service Award
2020 NYU Abu Dhabi Shukran Cultural Appreciation Award
2019 & 2020 Awarded Artist Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
2016 Story Changer’s Award from Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival
2015 Kimmel Residency
2007 Resident Artist at MASS MoCA
2001-2003 Resident Artist at HERE Space 
2000-2002 National Endowment for the Arts/TCG Director’s Development Award
1996 Resident at Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab
1993-1994 Resident/SUITE Artist at Mabou Mines
== Publications ==
Settle, J. Foreword. In H. Raffo, Three Plays About Iraq, Bloomsbury, 2021.
Settle, J. “Making as Research”, Electra Street Issue 4 Art: Research: Art, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2020. 
Settle, J. “New Paths of Discovery”, Research 2019, pg 20-21, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2019. 
Settle, J. “The Art of Research”, Research 2017, pg 4-12, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2017.
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