Jane Lanier

Jane Lanier has been in six Broadway shows: On Your Toes (dir George Abbott), Sweet Charity (Dir Bob Fosse), Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls (dir Jerry Zaks), Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and Fosse (Dir Richard Maltby Jr and Ann Reinking). Her regional credits include Bessie in Counsellor-at-Law (Ovation and LA Drama Critics Award), Cassie in A Chorus Line, Jane in The World Goes Round, and Kate in Michael John LaChuisa's The Wild Party. She danced with John Travolta in the film Michael and her last TV appearance was a guest star on Glee. Her director/choreographer credits include: directing Valerie Harper in a stage reading of the new play Bad Dog, choreographing the independent film Not Your Time starring Jason Alexander and Valarie Pettiford, and her choreography for The Wild Party garnered her LA Weekly and Backstage Garland Awards, Ovation, and NAACP Award nominations. Last spring she choreographed Chicago at Drury Lane Oakbrook and recieved a Jeff Award normination for Best Choreography.

Jane is currently head of the Musical Theater Dance Concentration program for CCPA at Roosevelt University and a proud union member of SDC, AEA, and SAG-AFTRA.