Joanna Russo

Joanna Russo is a performer, writer and director hailing from NYC. NY directing credits include: Dialogue at the American Theater of Actors, Alice in Bed at the Juilliard School and Watbanaland at the Susan Stein Shiva Theater. In 2007, Joanna fell deeply in love with the city of New Orleans. Here she has co-written and performed in The NOLA Project’s How to Draw the Sun, NEW NOISE’s Vigils, Sound Off! and After the War, and this year’s State of the Nation Festival. She is a founding member of NEW NOISE (newnoise.org) and directed their multidisciplinary production, Maybe You Can’t Tell, at the Old Ironworks. Joanna is so happy to be part of Mondo Bizarro, serving as Project Director for the digital storymapping project I-Witness Central City and collaborating with M.U.G.A.B.E.E. and the rest of the team on the new theatrical event and dialogue entitled Race Peace.