Director Jan Mason has directed theatre for over twenty years, working in New York City, Washington DC, Boston and Connecticut. In New York she developed new plays with Ensemble Studio Theatre (Theatre Lab Member), The Women’s Project (Director’s Forum Member), Rattlestick (Artistic Associate), New Georges (Affiliated Artist and Roaring Girl), and her work was featured at the first NYC International Fringe Festival. Jan is currently Associate Artistic Director at Connecticut Lyric Opera, and is a core faculty member of the Greve Opera Academy and Music Festival, a summer program in Italy. She is also an Affiliated Artist in the Capital Classics Theatre Company’s Contemporary Classics Conversations program. She teaches and directs at Connecticut Colleges and Universities. Recent and upcoming projects include: Verdi’s Don Carlo for Connecticut Lyric Opera, lauded as “One of the company’s best achievements” by The Day of New London, CT (May 2019); Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica in Florence and Greve-in-Chianti, Italy (June 2019) Peter and the Starcatcher at Central Connecticut State University (Dec. 2019); a new play reading of The Horn of Salvation and Indignation at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn, NY (Dec. 2019); a workshop of the new musical You’re Fired! for Norwich Arts Center (Jan. 2020); and Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with CLO (May 2020). She has studied with members of Shared Experience, Pig Iron, Pilobolus, and Shakespeare & Company. Jan is a proud alumna of Punahou School in Honolulu, and Emerson College in Boston. She holds an MFA in Directing from the Unive