About the Director
Joanna Rotté
Joanna Rotté has directed Samuel Beckett's Endgame, David Rabe's In the Boom Boom Room, Tina Howe's The Art of Dining, and Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime, as well as many works by Caryl Churchill, including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Top Girls, Vinegar Tom, Owners, Fen, and Ice Cream. A full-time faculty member and former department chair, Dr. Rotté wrote and directed Art Talk, a featured event of the 1998 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Death of the Father, performed at both Villanova and at the 1999 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She is the author of two books, Scene Change and Acting with Adler.
