Thrilled to announce that my play The Beatrix Potter Defense Society will have its world premiere at Plan B Theatre in Salt Lake City in their 2024-2025 season!
My children’s play Speechless has been chosen for the Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Playground Festival in Chicago this May/June! (April 2024)
I’ve launched a podcast! Once Upon A Weirdo is a weekly storytelling podcast that explores the overlooked, forgotten, and misunderstood characters in our favorite fairytales and folktales. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Substack. (March 2024)
Delighted to be one of 5 commissioned playwrights to write a monologue for the students at Rowland Hall in Salt Lake City. (March 2024)
My play The Lost Girls has been chosen as a finalist for the 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (top 33 plays out of over 1000 submissions!). Feb 2024
I’ve finished my newest play! The Release of the Shrew, a one act that explores the complexities of the sisterhood between Shakespeare’s Kate and Bianca, and offers some redemption to these female characters. Dec 2023
Relative Space completed the next phase of its journey with a workshop and staged reading of a new script in November 2023.
The Lost Girls had finished it’s UVU workshop with a public reading of the script. Now available for perusal and production! Oct 2023.
My play Sing In Me, Muse has been selected for the Cellunova One Act Festival in NYC! It will be performed Oct 13-15, 2023.
Drawing Under the Microscope has been selected for Kibo Production’s Reboot Festival at Baron Court Theatre in London! It will be performed Sept 19-23, 2023.
My short play, Drawing Under the Microscope, made the short list (top 36 out of over 400) for Kibo Production’s Reboot Festival at Baron Court Theatre in London! (Aug 2023).
I’m workshopping a new TYA play, The Lost Girls, in UVU’s New Script Workshop, Fall 2023.
Relative Space: An Atypical Musical opened to a red carpet extravaganza and a full house at Creekside Theatre Festival (June 2023).
I will be dramaturing Matthew Ivan Bennett’s play Let Down Your Hair for Salt Lake Acting Company’s New Play Sounding Series in April 2023.
I have a new 10-minute play! Bleeding Love, which tells the story of a trio of siblings and their discovery of the superpowers of menstruation, March 2023
Hidden Seashells: A Yoga Adventure is a winner of the Old Miner Children’s Playwriting Contest, March 2023.
My play The Tale Of Young Beatrix has been selected for the An Other Theatre Company’s New Play Festival, which will premiere in April 2023.
I was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award for the School of the Arts by UVU’s Faculty Senate.
I am dramaturging a new show, Relative Space: An Atypical Musical, which will premiere at Creekside Theatre Festival in June 2023.
My short TYA play, The Edge of Play, has been chosen as part of Ghostlight Ensemble’s 2023 Make/Believe Festival in Chicago! Performances will be in May and June.
Photos from Westport Country Playhouse’s production of my play, Scaredy Kat Presents! In addition to touring Connecticut schools and libraries, it will have one performance at WCP on March 5, 2023
My play Scaredy Kat Presents will be the inaugural production of the Westport Country Playhouse’s new mobile unit, touring Connecticut schools starting in January 2023.
My yoga play got a name and a workshop! Hidden Seashells: A Yoga Adventure, was workshopped at Utah Valley University in November and December 2022.
Is There An Actor in the House? (A farcical, improv, commedia…mish mash) had a successful run at Utah Valley University in November 2022 (new play dramaturgy).
I directed a workshop/reading of Rachel Bublitz’s play Tip Top Triangle for Plan B Theatre’s Script-in-hand series, September 2022.
My new TYA play about yoga and big emotions had a reading at the Plan B Theatre playwriting lab in Salt Lake City, September 2022.
I am dramaturging Utah Valley University’s production of the brand new show, Is There An Actor in the House? (A farcical, improv, commedia…mish mash), which opens November 2022.
My web series Backstage Bernie is now available to watch on YouTube!
I dramaturged a workshop of Rachel Bublitz’s Let’s Fix Andy for Salt Lake Acting Company in July 2022.
Check out the trailer for Backstage Bernie, my newest web series premiering July 25, 2022 at 3pm MDT on the JSK Stories YouTube channel!
My newest web series, Backstage Bernie, is currently filming with an anticipated release date of July 2022.
I have been appointed Associate Chair of the Department of Theatrical Arts for Stage and Screen.
I have been awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Utah Valley University!
Short Attention Span Theatre (SAST) opens March 31, 2022. I am the faculty mentor of this annual 10-minute play festival at Utah Valley University.
The new JSK Stories podcast, Dante’s Acting Adventures, can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Sanctify, and jskstories.com.
An Open Letter to Isabella Beck is now streaming on the JSK Stories YouTube Channel! June 2021
My new web series with JSK Stories, An Open Letter to Isabella Beck, will premiere on June 16, 2021 at 7pm MDT on the JSK Stories YouTube Channel. May 2021
The UVU Review called King Stag a “a wild and entertaining ride” and a “play for the COVID-centric time period we live in.” Check out the full review here. March 2021
King Stag opened to a live and live streamed audience on March 4, 2021. Check out some of the amazing production photos below. (Photo Credit: Suzy Oliviera) March 2021
Rehearsals for King Stag have begun! To help promote COVID-19 safety, director Matt August has created a radio show style performance. Jan 2021
JSK Stories has officially launched! This new website and YouTube channel is a community dedicated to telling stories, arts education, and providing a platform for kids and teenagers to share their creative work in a safe, online environment. Learn more here! Jan 2021
Janine has received a large grant to support the creation of the new “jsk stories”. More information to come soon! Oct 2020
We have a cast for King Stag! The adventures of creating COVID friendly theatre has begun, Oct 2020.
You can now reserve your tickets for the reading of Scaredy Kat Presents at the 12th Annual PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works, Oct 2020.
Check out the trailer for Scaredy Kat Presents, at the 12th Annual PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works, Sept 2020.
My short commercial, Student Success, created for Utah Valley University, has gone live! You can view it here, Sept 2020.
Ally receives a workshop at Utah Valley University, Fall 2020
Scaredy Kat Presents wins the 2020 Purple Crayon Players PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works and will receive a workshop and reading in Chicago, IL.
Scaredy Kat Presents receives a table reading at Plan B Theatre Lab, Dec 2019.
Bond wins Best Staged Reading at the New Works Ten by Utah New Works Theatre Project, Dec 2019.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon enjoys a sold-out run at Utah Valley University, Oct 2019.
Bond and Mamma Tallulah are chosen as semi-finalist and finalist (respectively) at the New Works Ten by Utah New Works Theatre Project, Oct 2019.
King Stag is selected to be a part of Utah Valley University’s 2020-2021 season.