Jan Egleson
Associate Professor of the Practice, Film &
Television
Jan Egleson is a writer/director who has
worked in film, television and theater. He most recently directed Coyote
Waits, based on the novel by Tony Hillerman, for Robert Redford’s Wildwood
Productions. Prior to that, he directed and co-wrote The Blue Diner, an
HBO feature starring Miriam Colon and Lisa Vidal that won the ALMA Award for
Best Feature.
He directed Michael Caine in the feature film A
Shock to the System, and returned to American Playhouse to direct Big
Time, starring Mia Sara, Dennis Boutsakaris and Adrian Pasdar. Playhouse
also financed his movie Lemon Sky, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra
Sedgewick, which he adapted from Lanford Wilson’s play. The film was honored
with a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
He then directed Roanoak, a critically
acclaimed miniseries, for American Playhouse. By then, he had written and
directed an award-winning trilogy of films about working-class adolescents in
Boston. These three films, Billy in the Lowlands, The Dark End of the
Street and The Tender Age, were shown on the American Playhouse
series. The films starred John Savage, Tracy Pollan, Paul Benedict and Kevin
Bacon, and were broadcast nationally as part of the American Playhouse series.
Over the years, in addition to directing independent
films, he has directed numerous commercial TV pilots and films for television,
as well as numerous episodes for such shows as Legacy, Nothing Sacred
and Law & Order. He has directed two long-form concert videos, Squibnocket,
featuring James Taylor and nominated for an ACE Award, and The Road to You
with Pat Metheny.
Contact
Email: jegleson@bu.edu
Office: B2
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