Janet PILLAI is a pioneer young people's theatre practitioner in Malaysia. She graduated with a BA in Social Science from the Universiti Sains Malaysia and an MA in Children's Theatre from the University of Hawaii. She has been involved in arts education since 1979 and has developed a unique integrated arts training program for children. Besides directing theatre she also coordinates heritage education projects for young people, trains facilitators and designs curriculum for community arts projects. Janet teaches theatre at University Sains Malaysia, Penang and coordinates projects at community level.