New York credits include: "All the Way Home", Transport Group.  "The Audience" with Transport Group (three Drama Desk nominations); "I Claudius Live" with Theatre Askew; "Thicker Than Water" at Ensemble Studio Theatre, "Starboard Home" at the Triad, "Eleemosynary" at the John Houseman, "Sarajevo, Mon Amour," at La Mama, "Twelfth Night" at Madison Square Park, and "Penelope's Garden Grows" at Central Park SummerStage.

Regional credits include: "Noel and Gertie" with the Henlopen Theatre Project, "Swingtime Canteen," "Time of My Life," "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", "It Could Be Any One of Us", and "Radio Gals" at the Depot Theatre, "Sylvia," "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," and "Cloud Nine" at the Human Race Theatre Company, and "Guys and Dolls" at the Flat Rock Playhouse of North Carolina. She toured South Carolina with her one-woman show, "Why I Live at the PO," and was a founding member of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival.

Joanna has performed at numerous NYC and LA venues, including the Belly Room at the Comedy Store (Los Angeles), Poole Party at Don't Tell Mama, Surf Reality, Two Boots, and Cornelia Street Cafˇ. She was a frequent guest at "Rumble in the Redroom" at Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and "Break-Up Girl Live!" at Gotham Comedy Club, where she opened for Jerry Seinfeld. Well, he stopped by.  You know, first they laughed for her, and then 15 seconds later they laughed for Jerry Seinfeld.

She was a contributor to "The Complete Idiots Guide to Jokes," and currently hosts and associate produces "News to Me," a current events-based comedy quiz show at the Actors Playhouse.

Joanna recently filmed "Tony and Tina's Wedding," playing the part of the sax player in the band, "Donnie Dulce and the Dead Poets Society." Joanna's comedy has been seen frequently on MNN's award-winning variety show, "Marybeth and Friends," and "The Emmy Gay Show." Other credits include commercials, industrials, "As the World Turns." Joanna stars in Nathan Butera's "Paws," airing on French TV's "Midnight Plus," on Canal Plus Television.