Joanna is a Native New Yorker, hailing from The Bronx. She won the prestigious Bronze REMI Award in the lead role, for the comedy TV pilot "GOOD 'n Screwed" (w/ Vincent Pastore) playing against type as a naive, scattered, OCD "good wife", at the highly regarded 51st Worldfest Houston Intl Film Festival.
She has also won Best Actress, Best Pilot, Best Screenwriting and Best Ensemble at festivals in Rome, Cannes, London, Las Vegas, and New York City. TV roles include "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", “The Sopranos", "Mozart in the Jungle", ”Boardwalk Empire”, “Show Me a Hero”, “Blackbox”.
Off Broadway roles include How Alfo Learned to Love, to glowing reviews at 59E59, and the newly discovered 18th century play The Art of Thinking, as the intellectual courtesan Elizabetta Caminer at The MMA Other memorable roles include The Duke in Measure for Measure, Dear Destiny at Kraine Theatre, Lovers and Other Strangers directed by Steven Van Zandt. She is a proud member of Renegade Theatre Company.