Janielle Kastner is a Dallas-based writer and performer. Most recently she devised an original podcast Untitled Dad Project (Spoke Media), and premiered Playwrights in the Newsroom, a collaboration with co-writer Brigham Mosley based on 2.5 years shadowing the Dallas Morning News. She is currently working on a new play commission from the Dallas Theater Center, where she was an inaugural member of the Dallas Playwrights' Workshop. Janielle was named Best New Playwright in “Dallas Best Of 2016” (Dallas Observer), and was awarded a 2016 Mastermind Award (Dallas Observer) for her work co-founding The Tribe, a producing and incubation collective for emerging artists. Her plays include SWEETPEA (Reading: Dallas Theater Center, Stage West Theatre), HEAVEN'S GATES, HELL'S FLAMES (Reading: WaterTower Theatre), OPHELIA UNDERWATER (WP: The Tribe, 2015; L.I.P. Service Theatre Company, 2018), FEED ME (WP: Stella Adler Theatre, A Light in Dark Places Festival, 2016).

Additionally, she co-runs Dallas cult classics Shakespeare in the Bar and Movies That Should be Musicals, and has performed with Stage West Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater, Amphibian Stage Productions, The In-Laws, Theatre Three, Cara Mia Theatre, and Shakespeare Dallas. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre and B.A. in English from Southern Methodist University.