Joanna Rush has appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including Pousse Cafe with Charles Durning, Daughters with Marisa Tomei, Inside Out, the original Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, Broadway Scandals of 1928, and Options at Circle Rep. Regionally in such plays as Beyond Therapy, Fifth of July, Freedomland, Little Mahagony, Great White Hope, Women Who Steal, concert versions of Two by Two and Minnie's Boys at Jewish Rep. Film: The Luckiest Man in the World, Sunburn with Farrah Fawcett and Joan Collins, On the Cliffs winner Best Short Comedy 2004, Ohio Ind. Film Festival and the soon to be released Saying Goodbye. TV: Shannon, Archie Bunker's Place, A Killing Affair, Cagney & Lacey, and the pilot Straight no Chaser as the inappropriate mother of Bronson Pinchot.
She has recently performed her new solo play Asking For It at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, The Kirk Theater on Theater Row, Stocker Arts Center in Ohio, Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwright's Horizons, and in the New York International Theater Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Most recently, Joanna was chosen to perform sections of Asking For It on International Women’s Day sponsored by the United Nations Counsel on the Empowerment of Women and the Hunger Project. As a writer, Joanna co-wrote Irish Whiskey, an independent feature and "Best Screenplay" winner at the Temecula Valley Film Festival and a screenplay entitled Mothers Day based on the life of Julia Ward Howe, the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters who, in spite of wars being waged in her own home, created the holiday Mothers Day in 1873, as a time for women throughout the world to come together each year in the name of peace. Joanna just received a grant to develop her newest 8 character darkly comedic play Home Sweet Homeland at Stocker Arts Center this season. She is a member of Actors Equity, The Dramatists Guild, SAG.