Broadway, Television, Film

Joanna Glushak is an award-winning actress who has starred on Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George, Les Misérables, A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, War Paint, Hairspray, Urinetown, Rags, Conversations With My Father, Welcome To the Club, After The Night And The Music and The Sweet Smell of Success.  With New York City Opera she was seen as Petra in A Little Night Music and Cleo in The Most Happy Fella

Beyond Broadway, Joanna has played leading roles in national tours of: Evita, Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, Finding Neverland, Xanadu, and Fiddler on the Roof,

Off Broadway: Joanna just finished a wonderful run of a new play about Gloria Steinem, Gloria A-Life, playing Bella Abzug opposite Christine Lahti, directed by Diane Paulus.  She has also performed leading Roles at The Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons etc.

Along with her own leading roles Joanna has also assumed standby duties for both Bernadette Peters (Sunday in the Park with George) and Patti LuPone (War Paint).

In an over three-decade career, Joanna has worked with some of the most important directors in the American and British theater, including: Diane Paulus, Michael Greif, Susan Stroman, James Lapine, Darko Tresnjak, Nicholas Hytner, Jack O’Brian, Trevor Nunn, John Caird, Scott Ellis, Daniel Sullivan, Arthur Laurents, Christopher Ashley, and Joseph Papp to name a few.

On Television Joanna re-occurs as Mrs. O’Tool on the Emmy Award winning Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and is also seen on Younger and Madam Secretary.  At 16 she played the lead in the PBS TV Series Watch Your Mouth starring Joe Morton as well as many others over the years.

Joanna is a graduate of NYU Tish and The Yale School of Drama.