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Per Janson will be a second-year MFA Acting student at the Brown/Trinity Consortium this fall. Previous Consortium roles include A Doll's House (Torvald), Blood Wedding (Death), Richard III (Clarence), Twelfth Night (Fabian), and Romeo and Juliet (Thug/Friar John). Per has also served as dramaturg for Dan LeFranc's Bruise Easy and Enrique Urueta's Forever Never Comes.
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).
For the past two summers, Per has 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.
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. |
