Janine DeMaria has created and developed television series with Sam Raimi, Debbie Liebling (Skydance), Nina Tassler (CBS), Scott Morgan and Bryan Unkless (Screen Arcade) and Ellen Pompeo, Laura Holstein (Calamity Jane Productions). She is a two-time Finalist for ScreenCraft’s Drama and Comedy Pilot Competitions and the Drama and Comedy Feature Competitions. Her plays have been performed, developed and selected for the Ground & Field Play Festival, Bike City Theatre Company, ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition, B Street Theatre’s New Comedies Festival, B Street Theatre’s New Play Series, The Magic Theatre SF, NYC Playground Experiment’s Faces of America Kraine Theatre in NYC. While earning her M.F.A. at N.Y.U. Janine’s work was selected for the Festival of New Works, N.Y.U. Playfest, and the Open Arts Film Festival. Apprentice: B Street Theatre, Artistic Associate: Magic Theater SF. 

Janine started her career in the arts after her college roommate smoked a joint then dared her to audition for their school's fall production. She took the dare and was awarded a part. The play was selected as a finalist for the American College Theater Festival at the Kennedy Center where she won the Achievement of Merit Award. Her Director then dared her to audition of the CETAs and was awarded a year long internship with the Equity B Street Theater, founded by Aaron Sorkin and Timothy Busfield. It was there where she figured out she really wanted to write the things actors get to say and that she likes to be dared to do stuff.

After working in Development at Tom Lassally's production company then with Dickhouse Productions (MTV's Jackass, Wildboyz), the writer's strike hit and she thought maybe getting a 'real' job was the way to go. She was an Advertising Executive at a fortune 500 company, worked in operating rooms at Stanford Hospital and ran a medical facility, flew all over the globe as a Flight Attendant for Virgin America, filmed nuptials as a wedding videographer, then lived through a very notable Saturn Return and started writing again.

Janine discovered 'real' jobs that require Ann Taylor suits and nylons are not her bag. Being a writer is. After getting her M.F.A. at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she moved to LA and started obsessively buying plants which she believes is the L.A. equivalent to having children. Then she actually had one with her husband Mac. After the dumpster fire that was the pandemic, Janine agreed to move her daughter and two dogs to Texas after her husband got a great job offer. She still cannot believe she lives in Texas.

She credits all the beautiful nutjobs she's encountered in her varied life for providing her with endless material and she only refers to herself in the third person when she's writing her bio page.