Joan Sergay is a Brooklyn-based director of new work.

Joan has directed and developed work with Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, PBS, No Guarantees, Nouveau Productions, The TEAM, Colt Coeur, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Westport Country Playhouse.

In 2024, Joan was the US Associate Director to Sam Mendes on The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth on Broadway, as well as 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 160 titles for Penguin Random House, where she has worked with narrators such as Isabella Rossellini, Bob Odenkirk, 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 in Theatre & Creative Writing: Northwestern University