Joanna Glum is a writer, filmmaker, and theatremaker who has proudly worked in arts education for over 10 years.
From institutions like UC Berkeley to Tony Award–winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Joanna has forged a career innovating on preexisting curriculums to center the individual’s voice within culturally–responsive and diverse classrooms, working with learners aged 12 to 52. Her scholarship runs the gamut from presentation on the intersection of genre and gender in the American Theater at the annual MLA Convention to the development of widely–accessible guides
to the works of those like William Faulkner and George Saunders, internationally published and available in libraries near you. Her practice is particularly inspired by her time developing ensemble–created documentary theater with some of the finest high school students (and artists) in Sacramento.
Joanna’s writing has been published, recognized, or supported by The Brooklyn Review, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Tripwire Harlot Press, The American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, The Philadelphia and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and Palm Springs ShortsFest, residencies with Vermont Studio Center and Yefe Nof, and grants from The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. A proud scholarship student, she holds, with honors, a BA from University of Pennsylvania and Masters in Playwriting from The University of Edinburgh.
Joanna is currently at work developing projects about caregiving, geriatrics, and shifting Northern California landscapes (as well as a sci–punk adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Frogs.) You can find
her in her Subaru or at www.joannaglum.com.