Janet Amos

Janet Amos is a Canadian theatre actor, director, educator and playwright.[1] She was born in 1945.

Amos has led theatre companies as the artistic director of the Blyth Festival (1979-1984) and (1994-1997)[2][3]; Theatre New Brunswick (1984-1988)[4]. She worked as an assistant professor of the University of Regina (2003-2006), as a guest artist at the University of Ottawa (2008) and as instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal.[1]

Amos has directed theatre productions at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille, Port Dover's Lighthouse Theatre, Regina's Globe Theatre, London, Ontario's Grand Theatre, Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and Ottawa's National Arts Centre, among others.[1]

Amos has appeared as an actor in the Canadian films Winter Kept Us Warm (1965), High (1969), Silence of the North (1981), Prescriptions for Murder (1987), and More than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story (2003). TV show guest acting credits include Ada (1976), Road to Avonlea (1992), Twice in a Lifetime (2000), and PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (2000)[5].

Amos' work has been recognized through various awards. The village of Blyth, Ontario gave her a Citizen of the Year Award in 1994, the University of Western Ontario awarded her an honorary degree in 1998 and the Association for Canadian Theatre Research made her an honorary member in 2005.[1]

She is married to Canadian playwright Ted Johns.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Amos, Janet". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ Belanger, Joe (4 July 2014). "Canadian playwrights have benefited greatly from Blyth Festival". London Free Press.
  3. ↑ Powell, M.E. (2013). "Growing Opportunities: Theatre Thrives in Rural Saskatchewan". Canadian Theatre Review. 154: 11–17.
  4. ↑ New, William H.; Berger, Carl; Cairns, Alan; Halpenny, Francess G.; Kreisel, Henry; Lochhead, Douglas; Stratford, Philip; Thomas, Clara (1990-12-15). Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781487591168.
  5. ↑ "Janet Amos". Internet Movie Database (IMBD).
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