Janet Thielke graduated from Houston, TX’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts theatre department, where she first combined her love of theatre and writing. At the University of Southern California, where she is currently in her senior year studying creative writing and screenwriting, she has been honored with second place in the USC wonderland award, second place in the Edward W. Moses Undergraduate Creative Writing Competition, and first place in the Undergraduate Writing Awards. Nationally, she has been awarded an NFAA ARTS merit award for excerpt from a novel, a Scholastic Art and Writing silver award for dramatic script, and another silver award for her writing portfolio. In August 2009, her first professional play was put up by Mildred’s Umbrella of Houston as part of the Frenetic Fringe festival where it won audience’s choice. She was granted an internship with LA Stage Alliance through the LA County Arts commission and is honored to continue working under the phenomenal mentorship of Lee Melville.

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