Jane House (Stanford, BA; CUNY Graduate Center, PhD) has been painting and drawing since her youth. She began sculpting in 2015, currently studies at the Art Students League, and has exhibited in the New York area. For many years previously she pursued her love of theatre and language. She acted professionally on Broadway, in regional theatre, on television, and in film. Long a promoter of Italian theatre, Jane coedited, with Antonio Attisani, 20th-Century Italian Drama: An Anthology. The First 50 Years (Columbia University Press, 1994), for which she translated numerous works. Her more recent translations appear in the six-volume Mellen Collection of Italian Theatre 1950-2001 (2015) and the two-volume collection of New Plays from Italy (Segal Center/TCG, 2018). She presented many 20th-century and contemporary Italian plays to the general public as staged readings in Manhattan. Jane, who earned a PhD in theatre, has taught at four-year colleges of the City University of New York as well as at New York University and Vassar College.