Jane Ann Crum's dramaturgy credits include extensive work with new plays at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and the New Harmony Project, including Adam Rapp’s Finer Nobler Gases, Karen Hartman’s Going Gone, Laura Cahill’s Mercy, and Tammy Ryan’s The Music Lesson. In New York, she was the dramaturge on Migdalia Cruz's Salt (directed by Loretta Greco) at the Actor's Studio Free Theatre and adaptor/dramaturge of Nick Joaquin's Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, produced by Ma-Yi Theatre. Her regional work includes Center Stage in Baltimore, MD, McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and Playmakers Repertory in Chapel Hill, NC. Ms. Crum has taught dramaturgy and dramatic literature at Yale College, The Catholic University of America, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her essays have been published in Dramaturgy in American Theatre; Rereading Shepard; Notable Women in the American Theater, Sam Shepard: A Casebook; George Bernard Shaw: The Neglected Plays; and Theater magazine. Ms. Crum is a longtime member and former officer of Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas (LMDA) and served as a panelist for the National Theatre Translation Fund. She organized a roundtable sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts entitled "The Glass Proscenium: Advancing the Careers of Women in the Theatre." In 2005, she served as moderator for a symposium considering Margaret Webster’s directing career at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. In addition to her work as a dramaturge and teacher, she served as Managing Director of the Women’s Project, where she produced The Antigone Project, featuring re-tellings of the Antigone myth by writers Lynn Nottage, Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Caridad Svich and Chiori Miyagawa. As Executive Director of The Drama League from 1997-2004, she produced The Brecht CentennialandFive at the Fringe, a total of twelve plays directed by Directors Project alumni during the 1998 and 2000 New York International Fringe Festivals. Ms. Crum is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where she studied with Richard Gilman, Gitta Honegger, Stanley Kauffmann, and Leon Katz. While at Yale, she was awarded the Kenneth Tynan Prize for Dramaturgy.