JANINE KIJNER


Ms. Kijner has received several awards for writing. She co-wrote "Duke's House, a film that premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival 2003 and worked on Postcard from Peje, a documentary set in post-war Kosovo & helmed by Mark Landsmann that premiered at The Sundance Film Festival 2001. Her script, my father's wedding, was a Quarter-Finalist in the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship Competition 2001 and in The Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition 2001. She has had several Off-Broadway productions of her stage plays including, "One Man Woman Show," "The Seductive Hand of Mr. Clean," & "Tevli's Song."

In addition, Ms. Kijner was Co-Director of an international theatre troupe, Artaban Theatre, along with French director Robert Gourpe whose plays, including "Don Juan in Manhattan" premiered in The Fringe Festival, La Mama Annex & The French Alliance Theatre in NYC. Ms. Kijner worked in post-war Kosovo (1999-2001) as an arts/cultural coordinator for an international NGO (Balkan Sunflowers) & for UNICEF to promote conflict resolution through the arts.