Janice Gardner
Janice has been a Mad Horse Theatre Company member since 2010 and was the Executive Director from 2020-2024. Her roles include Betty 1 in Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, Maura in Dying to Know, Rachel in Appropriate, Jane in The Tomb of King Tot, Pickles in Life Sucks, Phyllida Spotte-Hume/Countess Glamorgan in The Explorers Club, Fabiana Aziza Cunningham in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Detective Morris in The Nether, Francine in Totalitarians, Lysistrata in Lysistrata, Brooke in Other Desert Cities, Pattie in Kimberly Akimbo, the Widow in Vigils, Celimene in The School for Lies, Theresa in Circle Mirror Transformation, Becky Shaw in Becky Shaw, Dr. Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart, and Hermia Gottlieb in Dead Man's Cell Phone. She has appeared in several other area theater company productions, including Good Theater's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Death by Design, Bedroom Farce, August: Osage County, & Light Up the Sky, AIRE's Outside Mullingar, Eclipsed and Dancing at Lughnasa, and Dramatic Repertory Company's Swimming in the Shallows. She has lent her voice to several regional commercials and radio dramas, including FinalRune’s The Cleansed and Forest Rose Productions’ A Journey with Strange Bedfellows. She works as the Audience Services & Outreach Coordinator for the USM Department of Theatre.