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Jason Eagan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Jason Eagan (born October 3, 1975) has been the Founding Artistic Director at Ars Nova in New York City since 2003. He has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the United States.[1]

Contents 1	Early life 2	Career 3	Filmography 4	References 5	External links Early life Eagan grew up in California. His parents, Warren Eustis, a district attorney and an official of the Democratic Party in Minnesota, and Doris Marquit, a women's-studies professor,[2] divorced when he was ten. He graduated from high school at age 15 and moved to New York City, briefly attended New York University, and then co-founded the Red Wing Theater Company. After working in Switzerland, he moved to San Francisco, and started working at the Eureka Theatre Company. He met his wife, Laurie, at the Mark Taper Forum.[3]

Career Eagan has been the Founding Artistic Director of Ars Nova since 2003. He was the stage manager at Los Angeles Opera (Los Angeles, California) from. From he managed the design studio for Broadway's The Lion King. He was the director of for the Eureka Theatre Company (San Francisco, California) from 1981 to 1986 and then artistic director from 1986 to 1989.[1] He started the Red Wing Company when he was sixteen with Stephan Muller.[4]

At the Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of Rinne Groff's Compulsion and The Ruby Sunrise, Larry Wright's The Human Scale, and the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet. At Trinity Repertory Company he directed the world premiere of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home in 2003[5] and Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul in 2002,[6] both recipients of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production.

While at the Eureka Theatre, he commissioned Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum.[7]

He was a professor of theatre, speech and dance at Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theater training. He also served on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.

Eustis is a professor of dramatic writing and arts and public policy at New York University, and has held professorships at UCLA, Middlebury College, and Brown University.[2] He also teaches a small seminar at Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn).[3]

Filmography Year	Title	Medium	Role	Notes 2007	Working in the Theatre	TV series	Himself	Episode 29.6 2010	Made Here	TV series documentary	Himself 2011	Stage Left: A Story of Theatre in San Francisco	Documentary	Himself 2011-2012	Charlie Rose	TV series	Himself	2 episodes 2012	Gossip Girl	TV series	Himself	Episode 6.2 2013	Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus	Documentary	Himself [8]

References "Oscar Eustis Bio" publictheater.org, accessed July 19, 2016 Mead, Rebecca. "Stage Left" The New Yorker, March 22, 2010 Green, Adam. "Inside the High-Drama Life of Hamilton Impresario Oskar Eustis" Vogue, February 24, 2016 Bogart, Anne. Conversations with Anne: Twenty-four Interviews. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2012. Print. Taylor, Markland. "Review. 'The Long Christmas Ride Home'" Variety, June 18, 2003 Hernandez, Ernio. "Kushner's 'Kabul' Makes Regional Premiere at RI's Trinity Rep, March 15-April 21" Playbill, March 7, 2002 Shirley, Don. "All's Angelic at L.A. Drama Critics' Awards" Los Angeles Times, April 10. 1993 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1539000/ External links Internet Broadway database