Janice Kennedy

Janice Kennedy is an award-winning playwright whose work has been seen in London, New York, Chicago and Seattle, as well as other venues. Among the recognition she has received is a nomination for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for women playwrights in the U.S. and Great Britain for her play capturing the infamous Hatfield-McCoy Feud, "The Last Hanging in Pike County." She also won a "Spirit of Moondance" award from the Moondance International Film Festival (Boulder, Colorado, USA) in their playwriting division for her one-woman drama about Mary Shelley, "Shadows Round the Moon." In 1997, Janice co-founded the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, which annually showcases the work of writers from across the country at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. In 2004, she moved to Los Angeles to focus on film and television writing and was the first ever Writers Guild of America writer-trainee at CSI: Miami. Among Janice's screenwriting awards are "Best Screenplay" from the Dixie Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) for the comedy, "Martial Artiste", co-written with Susan diRende, known for The Road to Sundance (2008). In 2009, Janice won the "Best Screenplay" from the 15 Minutes of Fame Festival of Shorts for the film Man.Woman.Blackbird. (2009), starring American Jodi Nelson-Tabor and England's Julian Stone, which is based on her award-winning play, "The Dark." Janice is a member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, the Dramatists Guild, and Women in Film.