Janet Noble is a playwright, screenwriter, and journalist. Since 1963, Noble has been living and working in New York City. She has worked as a professional actress in regional and off-off-Broadway Theaters and is especially happy to have appeared in The Grand Tarot with Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatre Company. Her plays have been included in the Ensemble Studio Theater’s annual Octoberfests of New One Act Plays and, in 1984, was a resident at the Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, New York. Noble has maintained a long association with the Irish Arts Center in New York City, where she has acted as well as directed and co-produced. Her first full-length play, Kiss My Blarney Stone, premiered there in 1987. She was named one of the Top 100 Irish Americans of 1990 by The Irish Voice/Irish America Magazine and, in 2001 she received a New York State Council for the Arts grant with which she wrote a radio play, Squirrel Soup. She’s a member of The Dramatists’ Guild and the Irish American Writers & Artists.