Joanna Castle Miller

Joanna Castle Miller is a NY-based playwright, performer, and satirist.

Recent work includes the plays CONVERSA (2024 JPP Special Finalist), EKPHRASIS (We the Women), INFERNA (world premiere 2026), Sh@med (Jewish Plays Project finalist, Kilroy’s List), around and around and around the static sun (McNerney Prize Finalist), My Child Blank, The Storehouse, and Fox News the Musical. Her short plays include The World’s Next Tooth Fairy Is Marci Peterson, The Being Heard Academy, and Parasite. Film/TV work includes Sorta My Thing (Funny or Die), Ash (Generative Films), and Keep This Far Apart (We the Women).

Joanna was a recent New York Stage and Film Nexus Fellow and is currently under commission by We the Women Collective. Her Deconstruction series (INFERNA, CONVERSA, and VIRGINIA) are in development now, with INFERNA slated to premiere in the 2025-26 season and developmental workshops of CONVERSA to take place in the Spring and Fall of 2025.

As a comedian, Joanna is the co-creator and host of The Town Criers: Improv Inspired by [Your Hometown] and hosts the popular Hudson Valley all-women comedy show The Hudson Valley Bechdel Test.

Joanna’s satire and monologues have appeared in Time, McSweeney’s, The Hill, Applause Books, and The Belladonna, and her sketches have been featured on Funny or Die, WhoHaha, and Comedy Cake. She is the creator and host of Red, White, and Dad – a web show chronicling her father’s 2016 campaign for POTUS (he, and this cannot be stressed enough, is not the guy who won).

As the founder and executive producer of Wait Don’t Leave Productions, Joanna focuses on projects related to historical memory. She is a co-founder of Hire Survivors Broadway, which works to end retaliation against survivors of sexual violence in the theatre industry. Born and raised in Memphis, she is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild and enjoys good bourbon, bad words, and quality time.