Janice Jo Lee (she/they) is a queer Korean folk musician, spoken word poet, bouffon-clown, theatre maker, sound designer and arts educator born and based in Toronto. She has released three albums of music, two poetry chapbooks, and has composed for two musicals and five plays. Janice works as the DEIA Coordinator for Folk Alliance International. In summer 2025 she directed Play Play Clown Theatre’s Hope in Hot Times at the Hamilton Fringe, produced with support from Theatre Direct. In October 2025, she acted in Emily Jung and Jennifer Park’s excerpt Dead Korean Girl Comedy Show for Aluna Theatre’s Caminos Festival. She is currently co-writing an adaptation of Minh Ly’s play Ga Ting into a musical.

Sound Design/Music Composition Credits: Late Company by Jordan Tannahill (Green Light Arts 2024), Three Fingers Back by Donna-Michelle St Bernard (lemonTree/Tarragon 2024), Forge Futures animations produced by lemonTree Creations (2023), This Is How We Got Here by Keith Barker (Green Light Arts 2022), Shaded by Nada Abousaleh (Cosmic Fishing Theatre 2021), I Don’t Know by Ahmad Meree (7Spices/MT Space 2021), Suitcase by Ahmad Meree (Theatre Passe Muraille 2020), Will You Be My Friend by Janice Jo Lee (Green Light Arts, 2018).