Jan trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama - graduating with a double distinction - and the National Youth Theatre,
where she played leading parts which included two productions of Terson's Zigger Zagger. She then
taught Voice and directed Three Sisters at the Dome Theatre in Montreal.
Jan spent a number of years running her own theatre companies, Ruddles and A-One,
and later performed leading parts at the Key Theatre, Peterborough, Nottingham Playhouse and
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
She has worked extensively in voiceover and radio for
Hereward Radio and the BBC and made two short films with Mike Leigh.
In 2003 her first play Blackberry Promises was staged on the London Fringe with her theatre
company - Creative Ink for Actors. Blackberry Promises received outstanding reviews in
The Stage and local papers and was voted reviewer's choice for 2003 in the Bucks Free Press. It is published by
New Theatre Publishing. Her second play The Druid's Egg was in workshop rehearsal for
six months and Creative Ink's second production Bird Bath by Leonard Melfi was reviewed by
the Bucks Free Press as 'an outstanding piece of theatre'.
Jan also spent four years teaching Performing Arts and directing productions at the Amersham and Wycombe College.
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