JOANNA ALEXANDRA NORLAND is delighted to be Shake-Scene's Associate Playwright.

She is the author of Lizzy, Darcy and Jane, developed with funding from Arts Council England, published by Concord Theatricals and produced off West End and throughout the UK, the US, Australia and Africa.

Her adaptation of Pride and Prejudice has received an offer of publication in advance of some exciting events planned with Jane Austen's House in 2025/26. Prior drafts have been workshopped at a sold out public reading at Hancox Tudor manor house in East Sussex and a competition production at Potosi High School, USA.

Joanna’s other plays, including Mothers Have Nine Lives and Cycle, have been produced off Broadway, NY, in London, regionally in the US and the UK, and in Australia and South Africa.

Joanna is a US/UK citizen based in East Sussex, where she is a writing coach for Starcroft Farm Cabins and runs the Writersbridge writing group.

She has a JD from Yale Law School, an M.Phil from King’s College Cambridge and a BA from Brown University. She worked as a tax attorney with Allen & Overy LLP, London (now A&O Shearman) and Dewey & LeBoeuf, and is now a senior analyst with Bloomberg Tax.