Joan Sergay is a Brooklyn-based director of new work, originally from Washington, D.C.

She has directed and developed work at theaters including New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, Colt Coeur, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Westport Country Playhouse, the cell theatre, Northwestern University, New York University, Columbia University, and The University of California San Diego. Collaborators include playwrights Justice Hehir, Vivian J.O. Barnes, Johnny G. Lloyd, Justine Gelfman, and Aurora Real de Asua.

Currently, Joan is the US Associate Director to Sam Mendes on THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA by Jez Butterworth on Broadway. Most recently, Joan was the Associate Director to Rachel Chavkin on the Broadway musical LEMPICKA. 

Joan has been an associate/assistant to directors including Danya Taymor, Les Waters, Lee Sunday Evans, and Margot Bordelon at theaters such as Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, The New Group, The Play Company, Primary Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Studio Theatre. She has worked on world premiere and New York premiere productions by Will Arbery, Lucas Hnath, Leah Nanako Winkler, Anne Washburn and Dave Malloy, Susan Soon He Stanton, and Mara Nelson-Greenberg.

As an audiobook director, Joan has directed over 150 titles for Penguin Random House, where she has worked with narrators such as Bob Odenkirk, Isabella Rossellini, Warsan Shire, and Cody Rigsby.

Joan is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a 2024-25 Resident Artist at the cell theatre, a 2023-24 Audrey Resident at New Georges, a 2023 New York Theatre Workshop Adelphi Resident, and a former Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. 

BA: Northwestern University