DIRECTORS

JAN ELIASBERG’s prolific directing career includes the feature film, PAST MIDNIGHT, dramatic pilots for CBS, NBC and ABC, as well as multiple episodes of television series, including, most recently, NASHVILLE; THE MAGICIANS; BLUE BLOODS; PARENTHOOD; NCIS: LOS ANGELES; CRIMINAL MINDS, and countless others. Her original screenplay, HEART OF THE ATOM, earned her a place in the prestigious Fox Writer’s Intensive, is currently the top screenplay on The Black List, 2015, topped the BBC Short List, and was selected for Film Independent’s Producer’s Lab. Jan wrote W.A.S.P., about the Women Air Service Pilots in World War II, for Cameron Diaz and Nicole Kidman at Fox 2000; W.A.S.P. has just been selected by The Black List/Athena Film Festival as one of the ten best screenplays about women as leaders. She wrote THE GEMCUTTER, a magical family-film with Jan attached to direct at Sony. Additionally she’s written two music-driven films for Warner Brothers. As writer/director/executive producer, Jan sold the pilot, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, to CBS. She sold the pilots, THE BLUE WALL, with Angela Bassett attached, and FEARLESS to Fox Television Studios. Most recently, she wrote the pilot, SALEM, (with co-writer, Misha Rasovich) for FilmEngine, Fox Studios and FX. She’s just completed BEFORE I SLEEP, an indie feature which she will direct in 2016. A graduate of Wesleyan University (magna cum laude), the directing program of Yale School of Drama, and the American Film Institute’s DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN, Jan has directed plays at The Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Rep, and the Royal Court Theatre in London.