Janette Smith is respected British theatre director.

Current work: Head of Curriculum and Programming at Identity School of Acting. (2021 - present)

New plays: Songs of Grace and Redemption by John Donnelly (Theatre 503),ShowTime by John Donnelly (LAMDA), Meteorite by Barbara Norden (Hampstead Theatre),There by John Donnelly(Royal Court), Shakespeare Re-imagined (Old Vic), Write Now – 5 writers (Soho Theatre), Departures (Old Vic), The Dove by Roumen Shomov (Warehouse Theatre), Rock-a-bye Camden by Dona Daley (Embassy Studio)No Limits by Pete Lawson (Hampstead Theatre), The Glowing Manikin by K. Specht (Actors Centre) Trade by Richard Oberg (Royal Court), Under One Roof by L. Razumovskaya (Rosemary Branch), Wildsea-Wildsea by Eric Prince (Man in the Moon).

Adaptations and Devised work: The Snow Queen (London tour),Tin Drum adapted by Tinch Minter (Central School), Love is disgusting, I'll take the Yoyo (Central School), Love and Disguise – Shakespeare (Arts Education/tour), Tricksters, Fools and Clowns (Mountview), Voices of the Fallen by A. Clarke (New End Theatre), Punch & Judy Live (Tour), Time Lords (Tour), Faultline (Link Theatre),Challenging Time (commissioned by Social Services), Diary of a Madman by Gogol (Etcetera Theatre),Time & Creation(devised site-specific).

Classic work: Yerma (ALRA), La Ronde (Tristan Bates), Accrington Pals (Oval House),12th  Night (Arts Ed/tour),The Comedy of Errors (Tour), The Cherry Orchard (Mountview), View from the Bridge (Mountview), A Taste of Honey (Mountview), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Mountview), A Clockwork Orange (Central School), Bloody Poetry (TheWhite Bear).
TeachingUndergraduate and Post graduate teaching of acting (Stanislavski, Laban, Hagen, Bogart, Wright)
Whilst at ArtsEd (2013-2019) I was lead practitioner on the Chekhov project (1st year)Director of Shakespeare productions (2nd year).Director of contemporary text (1st year).

Opera: A Silver Spoon, (Beumaris Festival).

Training

MA text and Performance Birkbeck and RADA (distinction)

RYTDS Royal Court Theatre

National Theatre’s Director’s course

B.Ed Hons 1st class Drama and Spoken Language (Central School)

Publications

“Directing” Practical Theatre ed. Sally Mackey and Simon Cooper Stanley Thornes Press