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About Janet
Janet received her MFA in Acting from The University of Texas at Austin, is Artistic Associate with Michigan Shakespeare Festival, and a member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the professional union for stage performers.
As an actor, Janet specializes in Shakespeare/classical and non-realistic genres.
(Photos of her pre-tenure track professional work appear as thumbnails below. Images from her professional acting work accomplished as Assistant Professor appear in the ACTING portion of this website.)
Janet is also a theatre director, who values innovation, collaboration, and contemporary performance dynamics as means to keep theatre vitally distinct from film. She is committed to developing a live performance event as a civic engagement experience, which delights, challenges, and activates our empathy.
(Please see the DIRECTING portion of this website for her past and upcoming directing accomplishments as Assistant Professor.)
As a theatre-maker Janet is a collaborative creative leader/director who values place, conversation, and contributions of community partners. Janet is deeply committed to the concerns and questions of her hometown of Flint, MI. Her creative activity with site-based original productions such as the Glenwood: Restoration of Spirit and Nourish: The Flint Farmers’ Market Performance Project forms the basis of her Scholarship of Engagement research trajectory as a Boyer Fellow in Public Scholarship.
(Please see the SITE-SPECIFIC portion of this website for her past and upcoming accomplishments as Assistant Professor)
As a an engaged citizen-educator, Janet believes that when we dare to unplug from the "2-D" digital realm, step out of the isolation of our automobiles, and engage with others in "3-D" place and time…we can create experiences that ignite personal wellness, civic pride, and social change.
>>Please click here for her complete creative activity personal narrative.
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Awards & Associations
Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Artistic Associate
> Letter from MSF Artistic Director
Boyer Scholar, University of Michigan-Flint, 2012
> PDF Award letter
Arts of Citizenship Faculty Fellow, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, 2010
> Arts of Citizenship Glenwood Award
