She attended Glendale Community College where received Meritorious Achievement Nominations and Awards from the American College Theatre Festival for Biloxi Blues, Johnny Tenario, Britannia Rules, and Broadway Bound. For her work on Broadway Bound, she also won the 1995 Kate Lawson Award for Sound Design.  

In 1996, she attended University of Connecticut, where she designed sound for Fortune of the Moor. The following year, she transferred to the University of Victoria in Canada, where she apprenticed under the top Canadian Sound Designer, Ian Rye, on productions of Patience and Kilt at the Belfry theatre. She also studied other aspects of theatre design with theatre and television designer Mary Kerr. In her final year at  UVic, Janna created the Sound Design for the Masters project Measure for Measure under the direction of Sakalas Uzdavinys. 

Janna graduated in 2001 with a degree in Design for Theatre. That summer, she interned at Millennium Sound in Burbank.
 

10/2001