Janet is a feisty, classically-trained actor with comic flair.
Currently: Into the Breeches at the Barnstable Comedy Club - Cape Cod Times and Falmouth Enterprise
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Photo by Bob Tucker, Focalpoint studio)
Photo by Michael & Suz Karchner
Recent Work
Baby Barretta in The Fade-Away Advantage, by Meryl Cohen
“Janet Geist Moore as Baby is hilarious and has the distinction of being the oddball character that barges into the action precisely when she’s not wanted. The expectation of her exuberant interruptions brings levity and anticipation to what would otherwise be a heavy dissection of difficult subject matter.”
https://ptownie.com/reviews/fade-away/
“Baby is an almost slapstick addition and keeps scenes from becoming too serious, her slightly over-the-top persona dropped in with—again—perfect timing.”
https://provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2024/10/09/all-things-must-fade/
“Baby storms on and off stage in a whirlwind. Moore embodies her in voice and gesture: she’s painfully eccentric, undeniably weird, and desperate to please. And despite her slapstick tendencies, her monologue about her real job — more than a rental host — toward the end of the play is one of the most tender and beautiful in the script.”
Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham
The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet at the Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham
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- Photos by Michael & Suz Karchner
https://www.capecodchronicle.com/articles/1329/view
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Mama, Cotuit Center for the Arts
“Janet Geist Moore is especially effective and compelling as Big Mama….”
Agnes of God
Sandwich Arts Alliance, Glasstown Players
Love Loss and What I Wore
Gingy, Sandwich Arts Alliance
“Moore seems to especially embody Nora Ephron, Born in NYC to a Jewish family. Moore’s accent and demeanor are perfect”
All My Sons
Eventide Theatre Company -
(Photo by Bob Tucker, Focalpoint studio)
Praise for our production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" - "Director Nina Schuessler, assisted by Michael Solomowitz, keeps the action brisk, no mean feat in a play that so heavily depends on the characters’ speeches about big ideas like guilt, love, war, truth, and responsibility." - Cape Cod Chronicle
“The play is threaded together with superlative performances by the central Keller family (Nicholas Dorr as Joe, Janet Geist Moore as his wife, Kate, and Mike Devine as son Chris), and we’re there to witness the events that unfold. Each cast member adds another layer of significance, small at first, building the story to its tragic denouement.” - Cape Cod Times
Pack of Lies
Barnstable Comedy Club
“Janet Geist Moore is full of joie de vivre as Helen Kroger. She sashays across the stage, filling the set with a feeling of life and vitality.” Cape Cod Times
Moon for the Misbegotten
Eventide Theatre Company
(photo by Bob Tucker, Focalpoint studio)
“Geist-Moore is fabulous, showing her broad range, softening Josie’s hard exterior under the redemptive light of the moon.” Cape Cod Cronicle
“Janet Geist-Moore’s Josie is a tour de force; she is entirely convincing, comical, heart-breaking and strong.” Cape Cod Times
Dancing at Lughnasa
Eventide Theatre Company
(photo by Bob Tucker, Focalpoint studio)
“Janet Geist Moore is terrific as Maggie, the sister who bears the main responsibility for running the household as well as oiling the gears of relationships with her riddles and high-spirited antics. Maggie often sings as she works – and Moore does that, too, clear as a bell.” Cape Cod Times
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Cotuit Center for the Arts
“Ms. Moore performs well with her entire body, and she makes her prognosticating presence felt in every scene she enters.”
Arsenic and Old Lace
Cotuit Center for the Arts
“Abby and Martha Brewster, played masterfully by Cathy Ode and Janet Moore”
Beauty Queen of Leenane
Cotuit Center for the Arts
“Janet Geist Moore is just about perfect as Maureen, whose past slowly reveals itself as the play unfolds.”
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Tilden Arts Center/Cape Cod Community College
“It is easy to feel the character’s heartbreak of not being able to connect with her own child through Ms. Moore’s portrayal of the character.”
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Tilden Arts Center, Cape Cod Community College
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Eventide Theatre Company -
Photos by Bob Tucker at Focalpoint Studio
Lost in Yonkers
Barnstable Comedy Club
“Audience members who saw Ms. Moore in the “Beauty Queen of Leenane” at Cotuit Center for the Arts last year know that she’s more than capable of playing the off-center daughter of a domineering mother. Ms. Moore has a good deal of stage presence in this production and creates a likable character despite Aunt Bella’s instability.”
Radio Ridiculous
Eventide Theatre Company
(photo by Bob Tucker, Focalpoint studio)
“Janet Geist-Moore delightfully portrays the snarky operator, who has to search through phone company forms to find the right one to report a murder.”