Joanna Wan-Ying Chan

Joanna Wang-Ying Chan (; born 1939) is a Chinese-American Roman Catholic religious sister and a playwright, director, and visual artist.

Life Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1939, and was raised in Guangzhou, China. She and members of her family converted to Roman Catholicism in 1955, when she was 16. She returned to Hong Kong for education, attending Tack Ching Girls' Secondary School and Chung Chi College, Chinese University, where she majored in mathematics. As part of her education, she trained in graphic design. The show's cast ranged in age and background, including some Puerto Rican and Italian performers.

Beginning in the 2000s, she worked with the Sing Sing Rehabilitation Through Arts program in Westchester, New York as a guest playwright and director. The Soongs (1992) November 11, 2017 designated as “Dr. Joanna Chan’s Day” by the New York State Senate

Papers Her papers are at Columbia University.

As of 2019, MI Design in Hong Kong had published Chan's works in an eight volume series.

Personal life She is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

By 2016, Chan was living at the Maryknoll main house in Ossining, New York.