Joan Mazzonelli is a free-lance director who has produced, directed, and designed for the theater in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Theater pieces she has written include: an adaptation of All in the Laundry by Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood; Bottom’s Dream with James L. Kurtz; Border Crossing with Marianne Kallen; Reasonable Terms with Marianne Kallen and Karena Mendoza; and the operas High Fidelity, The Proposal, and The Passion of John with Philip Seward. She is the Treasurer for City Lit Theater (Chicago), for ShPIel Performing Identity (Louisville, KY) and for Write4Art Productions (Los Angeles), a board member of Season of Concern, and a member of the Artistic and Technical Team of the Joseph Jefferson Committee, as well as a member of the Dramatists Guild. She has happily served in leadership roles with Griffin Theatre, Midwest New Musicals at Light Opera Works (now Music Theatre Works), Athenaeum Theatre, Theatre Building Chicago, New Tuners Theatre, Illinois Theatre Association, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Chicago Dance and Music Alliance, Child's Play Touring Theatre, League of Chicago Theatres, On Stage Productions, Opera Shop at the Vineyard Theatre, and National Shakespeare Company. She has served on peer panels for the arts programs of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Evanston Arts Council and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Outside the lively arts, she was a credit officer in the World-Wide Banking Division of Chemical Bank (now J. P. Morgan Chase). She taught as an adjunct instructor at Columbia College Chicago for eight years and has lectured at DePaul University, Fordham University and Roosevelt University. B. A., Fine Arts, Fordham University and work toward M. A., Art History, Queens College CUNY.