AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE / All the News That’s Fit to Stage

“Kastner and Mosley are not conventional playwrights… Mosley is a queer solo performance artist, in the vein of Taylor Mac… Kastner writes more traditionally structured plays, but with plenty of abstraction. All of this to say, they were never going to write an updated version of All the President’s Men. Think Laramie Project, toss in some Brecht, add a dance number, muddle it in a volatile industry, and voila! Playwrights in the Newsroom.”

DALLAS MORNING NEWS / Volatile couple and their lovestruck birds: Dallas writer meditates on the dangers of intimacy

“I thought it was going to be a poem,” she recalls in a phone interview, “two people intermingled on a bed, as close as they physically could be. But the bed was breaking underneath them. Then we were prompted: ‘There’s someone in the room who can’t speak.’”

TEDxSMU / Tomato Truths: Playwrights in the Newsroom

DALLAS MORNING NEWS / Playwrights Embedded in Dallas Newsroom Reflect the Messiness of Journalism in Their New Drama

“The attitude we found in the newsroom,” Kastner recalls, “was people saying, ‘Yes, audit us... I’d love for people to know the complications. I‘d love people to know the inherent tensions of trying to tell the truth and trying to tell community stories.’ ”

DALLAS MORNING NEWS / With ‘Untitled Dad Project’ Podcast, Dallas Actress Examines the Father She Didn’t Know

“A moment left on the cutting-room floor of the podcast is a conversation with a therapist who tells Kastner, “We grieve like we live.” Kastner is a creator, so she needed to create; McCain was happy to help.”

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VOYAGEDALLAS / Thought-Provokers: Check Out Janielle Kastner’s Work

"Despair has become obvious. Cynicism is no longer clever, it’s de facto – so now what? My heroes are the people who stare into the abyss, let it stare right back, and then go make something." 

THEATERJONES / Detour Festival Announced

"The staged readings are from Dallas writer Janielle Kastner, plus national playwrights Nathan Alan Davis, Virginia Grise and Isaac Gomez... All four playwrights will be in attendance."

DALLAS OBSERVER / Best of Dallas 2016: Best New Playwright

"...various other ingenious techniques allowed the world of Ophelia Underwater to expand beyond the walls of the small theater for a rich and exciting first play. We look forward to seeing what Kastner does next."

DALLAS OBSERVER / Meet the 2016 Masterminds

"[The Tribe] provide whatever the artist requires to make his or her vision a production-ready reality, whether it be a stage to workshop a new play, actors to go over early versions of scripts or designers to visualize the work. They tend to adopt young artists with riskier aesthetics."

[BC]WORKSHOP / Activating Vacancy Downtown Dallas

"We believe these young women don’t need us to 'empower' them, they need us to acknowledge they already have the power to speak life into their community. Our work as artists has been taking their words and manifesting them in unexpected places downtown in a bold, surprising, even defiant manner."