Jan Eliasberg
| Jan Eliasberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jan Pringle Eliasberg January 6, 1954 |
| Occupation | Director, producer and writer |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Neil Alan Friedman (1991–present) |
Jan Pringle Eliasberg (born January 6, 1954)[1] is an American film, theatre, television director and writer.
Life and career
Eliasberg is from New York City. She is the daughter of Ann Pringle Harris, an English teacher at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Jay Eliasberg, a retired vice president for research at the Columbia Broadcast Group.[2] Her stepfather, Charles A. Harris, was the chairman of Harris Horan Textile Associates, textile converters and manufacturers in New York.[3]
She graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University (at the age of 20 in 1974) and earned a Master's degree at Yale School of Drama (1981).[2][4] In 1973, she co-founded Second Stage at Wesleyan,[5] an organization of students dedicated to producing theater and other performances, which may be the country's first solely student-run volunteer theater organization.[6][7]
She began her television directing career in 1986 directing an episode of Cagney & Lacey. Later that year, she directed an episode Miami Vice, becoming the first of only three female directors of that series, the others being Gabrielle Beaumont and Michelle Manning. She directed two more Miami Vice episodes in 1987. Her other television directing credits include L.A. Law, 21 Jump Street, Dawson's Creek, Sisters (also producer and writer), Early Edition, Party of Five, Nash Bridges, Strong Medicine, Ghost Whisperer, among other notable series.
She has also had a career in theatre, directing the plays Spring Awakening, Hedda Gabler, The Threepenny Opera, and The Importance of Being Earnest.[8]
Personal life
In 1991, Eliasberg married Neil Alan Friedman, a studio executive at Columbia Pictures.[2]
Directorial work
Television
- Cagney & Lacey
- Jack and Mike
- L.A. Law
- Miami Vice
- Crime Story
- Wiseguy
- Dirty Dancing
- TV 101
- Booker (also writer)
- The Outsiders
- Brewster Place
- WIOU
- Sisters (also writer)
- Early Edition
- Party of Five
- Any Day Now
- Dawson's Creek
- Nash Bridges
- Strong Medicine
- Ghost Whisperer
- Parenthood
- Supernatural
- Criminal Minds
- NCIS: Los Angeles
- Blue Bloods
- In Plain Sight
Films
- Lovers, Partners & Spies (Independent film, 1988)
- Past Midnight (Feature film, 1991)
Theatre
- Autumn Ladies and Their Lover's Lovers
- Spring Awakening
- St. Joan of the Stockyards
- Sore Throats
- Hedda Gabler
- A Christmas Tapestry
- Brecht on Brecht
- A Lesson from Aloes
- A History of the American Film
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Threepenny Opera
- Street Songs
- The Cote D'Azur Triangle
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Through the Leaves
- Request for "L"
References
- ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jan Eliasberg and Neil Friedman Wed, The New York Times Style Section Published: May 27, 1991
- ↑ Jan Eliasberg, Film Director, to Marry, The New York Times Style Section Published: January 6, 1991
- ↑ Jan Eliasberg Expands Career From Stage To Film A Director Broadens Her Horizons
- ↑ Guide to the Second Stage Theater Records, 1973 - (ongoing)
- ↑ Wesleyan University Second Stage
- ↑ Wesleyan University (pgs 4-6, and footnotes 5, 6)
- ↑ Jan Eliasberg Biography at FilmReference.com