What do you do when a world-wide pandemic stops you in your tracks, demands your
attention, and causes you to question everything you've known? Do you listen to the call to
change, or do you bow to all the pressures keeping you stuck? In My Year of Saying No, award
winning performer Janice Creneti explores impacts of the mental health crisis, sexism, and
society’s rigid expectations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the use of multimedia and
multiple characters such as Patriarchy, Perfection, Zoom, her Body and COVID, this serio-
comedic solo show tracks Janice’s journey to confront all that isn’t working in the world, and in
her life, to build a path back to herself. 

Directed by award-winning Jessica Lynn Johnson of
Soaring Solo Studios, My Year of Saying No is the winner of the Outstanding Power Story Award
from the 2021 Powerstories Voices of Women Theatre Festival, the selection for the 2023
Carrollwood Studio Project for development of new works, and an official selection for the 2023
Tampa and Orlando Fringe Festivals, 2023 Joshua Tree Solo Festival (juried), 2023 Santa Monica
Binge Fringe Festival (juried) and the 2024 Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (juried). 

“A Show so well written it should be an essay on the female evolution. In this hour-long deep dive
into her own awakening Janice expertly and with nuanced and often hilariously accurate
eloquence picks apart the flawed and supremely feminine need to please, to support others
and to never put ourselves at the top of anyone’s list, let alone our own.” - NoHo Arts

Genre: Theatre

Age Range: PG-13