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joan kaneMember Since 2020
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Joan Kane (director/producer /writer/actor) selected directing: Sycorax at HERE, Play Nice! at 59e59 theaters, I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row, Six Characters in Search of an Author in Oslo, Norway and Kafka’s Belinda in Prague. She also directed both Safe and what do you mean at 59e59 theaters and in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, getting four star reviews for each. Joan was awarded Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival where she has directed six pieces. Joan was named to the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame in 2011. As the Founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus Theatre Co. she has presented 47 shows including 22 stand alone plays and 26 festival entries in nine different festivals including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Prague Fringe, New York Fringe, the United Solo Festival and FringeArts in Philadelphia. Her shows have been nominated for 61 awards, winning 21. She has also directed plays and readings at the Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages, Workshop Theater, Nylon Fusion, Articulate Theatre Co, Abingdon Theatre, Oberon Theatre, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Actors Studio, T. Schreiber Studio and many others. Joan graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse and has an MFA in Directing from The New School and an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street College. Early in her career she was an Equity, AFTRA and SAG actress. She later became a teaching artist for Henry St Settlement, Young Playwrights and Theatre for a New Audience. Joan went on to teach in New York City Public Schools where she was also a staff developer and at Fordham University as an adjunct professor for both under graduate and graduate classes. She is a member of The New York Madness Company, the League of Independent Theatre, the Dramatists Guild and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers. Joan is an ex-officio Vice President on the Executive Board of Directors of the League of Professional Theatre Women. www.EgoActus.com
