JClare

JAEHN ("Jane") CLARE has more than thirty years experience as an actor, director, producer, playwright, teaching artist and arts administrator. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, and an MA in Dramatic Literature from the University of Essex, in Colchester, England. Since 1986, Jaehn has been active as a disability awareness educator and trainer, offering workshops in a variety of community settings. As a Teaching Artist, she has worked with diverse participants in diverse school and community settings across the U.S. and abroad, including a four-week long residency in Cairo, Egypt in July 2007.

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Jaehn in an Open Studio session during her Teaching Artist Fellowship with VSA arts, 2007

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Jaehn was selected as one of five artists who comprised the inaugural class of the VSA arts Teaching Artist Fellowship (TAF). The program was established by the VSA arts Home Office (Washington, DC) in 2006 for adult teaching artists with disabilities in the visual and performing arts. in 2009, Jaehn served as a member of the Review Panel for the current class of TAFs with VSA arts. www.vsarts.org

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Jaehn teaching "Name Toss" to students in Washington DC, 2007

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Jaehn spent an afternoon collaborating with fellow TAF Nilea Rohrer-Parvin (Austin, TX), leading a workshop for youth at Kingsbury School.

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Jaehn performing her one-woman show TAIL TELL TALE

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This one woman performance premiered at the 2002 FOCAS Festival, hosted and produced by Alternate ROOTS in Lexington, KY.

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Jaehn's professional headshot from 1994

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