Janice Pieroni’s entertainment experience includes working as an executive at Universal Studios, as a co-writer for Universal Studios and its affiliates, and as an assistant to Martin Scorsese.
Janice’s professional experience also includes working as an associate in the Los Angeles home office of global law firm Paul, Hastings, as a script and story analyst for the producers of an Academy Award-Winning feature, as an assistant at WNET, New York’s public broadcasting station, and as a production assistant on a Warner Bros. feature and on several PBS-funded projects.
Through Story Arts Management®, which she founded in 2004, Janice has worked with a national and at times international clientele of individuals, businesses, and organizations to develop, edit, and refine film, television, and book projects – placing approximately 25 client fiction or non-fiction book projects with publishers such as Simon & Schuster, W.W. Norton, Wiley, and others, and guiding numerous client screenplays into development with leading Los Angeles producers.
Janice also serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member at Boston University and as a Senior Affiliated Faculty Member at Emerson College.
At Boston University, Janice teaches graduate and undergraduate students. She has taught Script Analysis, Screenwriting l, Screenwriting ll, Writing Television Pilots, Writing Episodic Drama for Television, and Storytelling for Film and Television. Script Analysis, a required class for second-year graduate students in B.U.’s Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting Program, features both a collaboration with the Austin Film Festival that Janice initiated and which is now in its fourth year, and a speaker program of industry leaders that has included executive producers and/or script writers of well-known films and/or television series, a studio executive, and a production company executive. In addition, Janice has served as a graduate student thesis advisor for B.U.’s Master of Science in Television Program and as a judge for approximately six years for a screenwriting competition that is part of B.U.’s Redstone Film Festival.
At Emerson College, Janice has taught Writing Television Pilots, Writing for Television, and Writing the Feature Film, as well as other writing courses – such as Dramatic Screenwriting, Writing the Short Script, Concept Development, Film Writing and Design, and Writing for the Media. Janice also has taught courses about the business of the entertainment industry, including Entertainment Law, The Business of Screenwriting, The Business of Television Writing, The Business of Independent Film Production, and Media Management. Janice presents an annual lecture to the graduate students in Emerson’s Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Program in Screen and Television Writing; she has served as a second thesis reader and advisor for that same Program. In addition, she has produced or co-produced industry events and served as a judge for Emerson’s Evvy Awards.
A seasoned speaker, Janice has spoken at educational institutions such as Harvard University, University of Massachusetts, Tufts University, and Amherst College, as well as at writers’ conferences, professional organizations, and continuing education venues. She has produced or assisted with producing events by industry leaders, including by Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, and Emmy-winners, moderated or participated in industry panels, and served as a judge for pitch, film, and screenwriting competitions – including participating for numerous years as a judge for a screenwriting competition sponsored by the Massachusetts Film Office.
Janice earned a B.A., magna cum laude, in English with a concentration in Film from Amherst College and a J.D. from University of California at Berkeley. She also studied Film in the School of the Arts, Graduate Division, at Columbia University. She is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts and is a member of Writers Guild of America and Massachusetts Production Coalition.
