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Per Janson is a third-year MFA Acting student at the Brown/Trinity Consortium. Previous Consortium roles include Othello (Roderigo, Duke, Montano, & Lodovico), The Tempest (Prospero), Hamlet (Claudius/Ghost), Mad Forest (Mihai), A Doll's House (Torvald), Blood Wedding (Death), Richard III (Clarence), and Twelfth Night (Fabian). Per also served as dramaturg for Dan LeFranc's Bruise Easy.
At Trinity Rep, Per has served as a talkback leader, a new play reader, and assistant to director Brian McEleney on Hamlet. At Perishable Theatre, he has appeared in Molly Rice's new play Line and in Workhorse Theatre's Wild Porcelain (dir. Stephen Buescher).
During two previous summers, Per apprenticed in Calabria, Italy with actor/cantastorie Nino Racco, whom he met in 2004 at the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo. In 2003, Per served as archival intern and bartender at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, where he researched the riots surrounding the premiere of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World for an exhibit accompanying the Abbey's centennial tour. He has since presented a paper on the riots at the 2007 American Culture Association conference and has also presented on the photography of Edward S. Curtis at the 2007 American Comparative Literature Association conference in Puebla, Mexico. In June 2009 he presented on the work of director Jerzy Grotowski at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
Per holds a B.A. in Theatre and English with a concentration in Africana Studies from Grinnell College and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Brown. |
