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Joanne Schultz has an M.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Sarah Lawrence College and a B.A. from Goddard College. She has directed theater for twenty years, and has also worked as an actor, puppeteer, community-based artist, and theater educator. In spring semester '08 she directed A Zany Spring Comedy for the Performing and Creative Arts Department at The College of Staten Island, where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor.
Joanne directed, collaboratively created, and performed in original productions for Ninth Street Theater, based in New York City's East Village. These critically praised shows were interdisciplinary and socially engaged, marked by compelling stage images and atmospheric musicality. They played at Theater for the New City, Performance Space 122, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Arts at St. Ann's, and Pace University Schimmel Theater in New York City, Baltimore Theatre Project, Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, and toured to festivals and alternative performance venues in Germany. The Village Voice described one production as " . . . an endlessly inventive marvel . . . in an evening of continual surprise for the audience" and the German press called another a "sparkling theater spectacle."
Joanne was also a touring company member of The Bread and Puppet Theater, performing across the United States and in Europe, Canada, and Central America in venues as varied as theater festivals, regional theaters, colleges, and alternative performance spaces. In addition, she has extensive experience as a teaching artist in New York City with the innovative, intergenerational, theater-in-education/community-based arts program Elders Share the Arts. She has taught directing, acting, and a feminist cultural studies course for Marymount Manhattan College's BFA/BA Theater Program, and taught theater courses and directed plays for The Performing Arts Department of LaGuardia Community College-CUNY. She lives in Manhattan.