Janice is a poet and composer. Her writing has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Callaloo, The Hat, In the Tradition, and American Poetry Review. Her articles on teaching fun and innovative creative writing lessons have appeared in Teachers & Writers Collaborative publications, including From Medusa to the Sky, Sing the Sun Up, and Old Faithful.

Janice is passionate about new musical theatre and mentoring young writers. She co-designed White Bird Production’s popular Summer Musical Theatre Workshop for youth in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, now in its ninth year. With playwright Melanie Maria Goodreaux and fourth-graders at Brooklyn's PS 156, Janice composed I'm Searching the Universe for a New Friend, a new musical set in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and fusing the R&B, reggaeton, hip-hop and dancehall sounds of the neighborhood.

Janice has taught creative writing and music workshops in numerous schools, public libraries, and community programs. She is ever inspired by the boundless creativity of New York City youth and the stories they are bursting to tell.

Janice appeared as composer and songwriting consultant on the pilot episode of My Time on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her segment involved collaborating with a fledgling lyricist and composing a new song in a New York minute. Janice is also the composer of Sit-In at the Five & Dime (words by Marjorie Duffield). Sit-In has received developmental residencies from the New Harmony Project, Voice and Vision Theatre and NYU’s In-One Alumni Workshop at Barrington Stage. She has collaborated with bookwriter-lyricist Charles E. Drew Jr. on several musicals, including Central Avenue (Cityparks-NY), This Esther (The Duplex), Alice Underground (La Mama ETC.), and Somewhere in Texas (Chelsea Playhouse). Her musical Lil Budda (text and lyrics by Stephanie L. Jones) received a developmental residency from the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference and was presented in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Works. Janice’s work has been performed at Ars Nova, La Mama ETC., The Chelsea Playhouse, The Ohio Theatre, Dixon Place, The Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater Conference, NAMT Festival of New Works, New York University, Case Western Reserve University, Stillman College, and The Calhoun School.

Janice holds an MFA in composition from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and was a recipient of the Dramatist Guild’s Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theater Fellowship. She is a co-founder of The Dark Room Collective.