Johanna Gruenhut is a theater artist and innovator living in Baltimore, MD. Her directing work has been seen at The Public, Long Wharf Theater, The Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Weston Theater Company (formerly Weston Playhouse), Portland Center Stage, The Folger, Mosaic Theater Company, Theater J, and Baltimore Center Stage. Her production of That Face inaugurated Baltimore Center Stage’s new theater. Also for Baltimore Center Stage, The Container, the first site-specific play produced in the theater’s history. As the former Artistic Associate at Everyman Theatre, she served as the producer of the Salon Series, the only play reading series in Baltimore dedicated to the work of female playwrights. The former Associate Artistic Director of Theater J, she commissioned and developed new plays by some of today’s formative playwrights, including: Rinne Groff, Michele Lowe, and Stephen Laughton. She has translated several plays from Hebrew into English, including Motti Lerner’s The Admission (Theater J, 2014). She has been a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University, University of Maryland, College Park, and University of California, San Diego. As an actor she performed in the original cast of Elizabeth Swados’ devised piece, The Hating Pot.