Draft: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 NYU Abu Dhabi.

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.