Joanna Garner is a playwright based in Santa Fe, NM, where she is the Director of Narrative for the immersive art company Meow Wolf. Her work has been developed nationally and internationally, including at the Banff Playwrights Colony, Tofte Lake Center, ZACH Theatre, Chance Theater, Kitchen Dog, Great Plains Theatre Conference, the New York and Hollywood fringe festivals, and with Austin’s acclaimed Rude Mechs. Her political drama about Iran, The Orange Garden, was a winner of the 2016 Keene Prize for Literature and included on the 2016 Kilroys List. An accomplished songwriter and musician, Joanna’s original country musical 100 Heartbreaks was workshopped in Seattle Rep's 2011 New Play Program, with the Northwest Playwrights Alliance, and was presented at Bumbershoot. Joanna has a long creative relationship with Seattle, and in the last decade she’s also made work with On the Boards, Annex Theatre, Live Girls! Theater, 14/48, Macha Monkey, and Cafe Nordo, where her immersive experience Please Open Your Mouth premiered in 2017. Joanna has an M.F.A. in Playwriting from The University of Texas at Austin