Jana Gillis

Jana Gillis is a professional skit artist comedian and bagpiper from Cape Breton Nova Scotia Her skits have taken many forms over the years Sometimes as short films screened at SJIWFF AIFF The Nickel HIFF TOSketchFest various SciFi Fantasy Conventions throughout Atlantic Canada as plays St Johns Short Play Festival Cape Breton Stage Company as sketches NL SketchFest Is This a Bit Almost Baymous The Second City Toronto Sketch Conservatory and straight up make em ups St Johns Improv Extreme Improv XStreamed Movie Night Productions Shes also acted in longform television skits Hudson Rex Son of a Critch Astrid Lilly Save the World Hallmarks Everything Christmas Jana studied professional skitcraft and earned a red tshirt with a chair on it from The Second City Toronto and a BFA in Theatre Acting from Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland Her first short film Must Be a Zombie Apocalypse produced through the SJIWFF Inaugural FRAMED West filmmaking program screened at SJIWFF HIFF and several SciFi conventions throughout Atlantic Canada Her second short Up Close Personal premiered at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival Her latest short comedy Multiverse was produced with the help of ACTRA Torontos YEAA Creates program and premiered at the Nickel Independent Film Festival She likes telling strange stories in bite sized bits