Joan Kane

Joan Kane (Director) was named one of 2011 People of the Year in indie theatre by nytheatre.com and was awarded Best Director of a Reading in the 2011 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and nominated for three awards in the 2012 Festivity including Best Director of a play. She has directed Play Nice! off-Broadway at the 59e59 Theaters, Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Saviana Stanescu at Theater 54, The God Particle and Pizza Man at the Bridge Theater. She has directed plays and readings at the Lark Play Development Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theater for the New City, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Dramatists Guild, The Lambs Club, The Players Club, the Actors Studio, and for the Scandinavian American Theater Company. She has an MFA in Directing from The New School, an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street and is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the League of Professional Theatre Women.