​An innovative theatre maker, who works as a director, writer, dramaturg, curator, producer and educator. Janice is adept at leading creative teams with empathy and skill, and shaping inclusive, surprising and thought-provoking theatre, opera and hybrid performance art productions.
THEATRE CREDITS:
Garage Girls by Three Birds Theatre,La Mama & Regional Victorian Tour (2023-24)
Leviathan by Julian Lenarch,Creative Development, APT/La Boite (2022)
Australian Realness by Zooey Dawson, Malthouse Theatre (2019)
Good Muslim Boy, (co-adaptor), Malthouse & Queensland Theatre (2018)
Revolt, She Said. Revolt Again by Alice Birch, Malthouse Theatre (2018 Green Room Award Nomination Best Ensemble),
Lake Disappointment, Carriageworks (2016) Nominated for 5 Sydney Theatre Awards– Best New Work, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Director, Best Lighting Design (won), Best Sound Design
The Tribe, (also co-adaptor with Mohammed Ahmad, Bankstown Live, UtP/Sydney Festival, Belvoir, Castlemaine State Festival, The Substation (2015-17)
Milawa Monologues, by Margaret Hickey, Milawa (2013)
A Woman in Berlin, (co-adapted with Meredith Penman) Old Fitz/Malthouse (2009-10)
Room 806, for X-Wohnungen Suburbs, HAU Berlin (2005)
The Country by Martin Crimp, B Sharp Belvoir, (2003)
Psychopathia Sexualis, Redstich, 2002
Crave by Sarah Kane, B Sharp Belvoir (2001)
Kindertransport, Saltpillar Theatre, 2000
Dead Girls Are Fantastic by Lally Katz, Next Wave, (2000)
OPERA CREDITS:
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La Traviata – Associate director to dir. Sarah Giles, Opera Queensland/WA Opera (2022)
Internship with director Jetske Mijnnsen, Katja Kabanova, Komische Oper Berlin (2021)
Director, world premiere Ned by Luke Smiles/Peter Goldsworthy, Perth Festival/Lost & Found Opera (2019)
Director, world premiere Biographica by Mary Finsterer/Tom Wright, Sydney Chamber Opera/Sydney Festival (2017)
ASSISTANT DIRECTING CREDITS:
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​Death and the Maiden, dir.Letitia Cáceras, MTC, (2015)
A Winter’s Tale, dir. John Bell, Bell Shakespeare (2014)
Antigone, dir. Chris Kohn, Belvoir (2008)
The Misanthrope, (Martin Crimp) dir. Simon Phillips, MTC (1999)
DRAMATURGY:
Janice works as a script assessor and dramaturg. She has worked with numerous writers and companies including My Darling Patricia on The Piper, Sydney Festival/ Edinburgh (2014), Winner: Best Production for Children, Sydney Theatre Awards.
Janice has been a mentor for atyp’s Fresh Ink program, a script assessor for Playbox, Griffin and ANPC (now APT), and has led two new work developments at National Playwriting Festivals.
TEACHING/MENTORING:
Janice has worked as a guest lecturer and academic tutor for the Masters in Directing Program VCA, (2017-21) and has taught and mentored emerging artists at Swinburne University, National Theatre St Kilda Studio, atyp, St. Martin’s Youth Arts Centre & ACCOCo's Young Singer's Program.
She directed Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore by Daniel Evans for the 2023 graduating class, National Theatre St.Kilda and The White Rose Musical (Patterson & Christie) at Federation University (2024).

EDUCATION:
Diploma of Modern Languages, German, UNE (2023)
Graduate Diploma in Theatre Directing, VCA (1998) Bachelor of Arts (Theatre Studies) UNSW (1996)
Certificate in Radio Broadcasting AFTRS (1989)
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Intro to Screenwriting Jonathon Ogilvie, AFTRS (2021)
Writing for Television, Susan Bowers, AFTRS (2021) Directing for Screen, Elissa Down, AFTRS (2022)
SCHOLARSHIPS:​
2006 - Goethe Institute & Playwriting Australia Inaugural Dramaturgy Scholarship - directing internship at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and with Rimini Protokoll
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2003 - Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Scholarship – Observed theatre productions in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and India.
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2001 – Royal Court International Residency (for writers and directors) supported by the Australia & British Councils. ​