Director

- the actress and director studied theatre in the United Kingdom. She has been running VIENNA THEATRE PROJECT since 2006. German language theatre directing credits include Mädchen Mit Den Schwefelhölzern workshop (Ronacher Theater); Hautnah (Patrick Marber) for Theaterverein Vision (OFF Theater) Recent acclaimed musicals include Tick Tick...Boom! Marry Me A Little, Ordinary Days (Theater Drachengasse)

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She enjoys choosing plays with social & political content; Dirt (Theater am Petersplatz), The Meeting (Black History Month/Theater am Petersplatz) to name a few. In 2014 she directed the hit play Topdog/Underdog (Theater Drachengasse), was pleased to receive rave 

reviews for Disgraced & The Invisible Hand (2016) and starred in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (Dialog im Dunkeln).

She directed the sell out shows Sarg Niemals Nie (Theatercouch) and The Last 5 Years ( Brick 5). The Who & The What by Ayad Akhtar (Theater Drachengasse). She further directed , Building the Wall by Schenkkan , Crossing Jerusalem - Julia Pascal & The Flick by Annie Baker and the opera Barber of Sevilla at Klassikfestival Schloss Kirchstetten.

She produced A Bedfull of Foreigners at MUTH with Art for Charity, directed The Mountaintop by Katori Hall (Pick of the Week) and Nina Simone: Four Women by Christina Ham, again celebrated by press and public. Showed in Kultursommer Wien Emigranten. She was on stage in Relative Values by Noel Coward at Le Studio Moliere, in November 2021. Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill and Dreck (Kultursommer Wien) were her latest director hits. She enjoyed critical acclaim on stage as lead character in Airswimming by Charlotte Jones

As a result of the pandemic started reading “1001 Nights” Live and online nightly in 2020 and will complete the whole book by 2024. So far with this project the team has reached over 2,000,000 people globally. More info  www.joannagodwinseidl.com and www.viennatheatreproject.com for upcoming shows.