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= Joanna Settle = Joanna Settle is a play director, artistic director, and associate arts professor. She was the artistic director for Chicago Division 13 Productions from 1997 to 2004, and Shakespeare on the Sound from 2009 to 2012.

Education
In 1996, Joanna guest directed The Balcony at Chicago-based Division 13 Productions. Joanna Settle got her bachelor's degree in Directing and Design at Hampshire college, and her graduate at Julliard's directing program in 1997.

Career
After getting her graduate in 1997, she went to Chicago to become the artistic director for Division 13 Productions. There, she adapted/directed and designed 15 of D 13's 17 projects, most notably BLOOD LINE: The Oedipus/Anitgone Story, two plays by Sophocles. This was inspired by a collaboration with scholar/translator Nicholas Rudall on detailed questions about the original scripts written in ancient Greek. Other notable productions she directed were Macbett and a collection of shorts by Samuel Beckett. She continued to be D 13's artistic director until 2004.

In 2004 to 2006, Settle directed the first productions of Heather Raffo's Nine Parts of Desire, a play based off of a novel of the same name where one woman performs the role of 9 different characters.

In 2009, Settle became the artistic director for Shakespeare on the Sound, creating a "major artistic change" in the theatre company. Her first production with the company, Midsummer Night's Dream, had brought in "nearly fourteen thousand audience members, accounting for [Shakespeare on the Sound's] largest audience ever." She went to put on productions of Othello (2010), Much Ado About Nothing (2011), and Romeo and Juliet (2012) before stepping down as artistic director.

In 2014, Settle directed Family Album for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, continuing her collaboration with Stew and Heidi Rodewald. After finishing this, she fully moved to Philadelphia from Brooklyn with her son Logan. Soon after, she was diagnosed with early breast cancer. She also directed Rapture, Blister, Burn at the Wilma theater around the same year.

In 2012, Settle began directing Stew and Heidi Rodewald's The Total Bent at the Public Theater, a musical about a young black musical prodigy named Marty Hook and the conflicts he has with writing music for his father to get famous. However, the show was cancelled and pushed back to 2016 after she was diagnosed with early breast cancer.

In 2017, was appointed as the Associate Arts Professor of Theater in the Arts and Humanities division at NYU Abu Dhabi.

In 2018, Settle directed Noura at the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage with the Shakespeare Theatre company.