A finalist for a CAPS Grant in Poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts, Jane is the author of Poems of The Laughing Buddha. You can see and hear her reading four of them on YouTube. Her first chapbook, Dogs in Topanga is, like this one, set in Topanga, where she lives. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to write and perform the one-woman play, Reminiscences of Mozart by His Sister, she also performed it at Lincoln Center in New York. Her one-woman play, Miriamâ??s Dance, in verse, about Mosesâ?? sister, was produced in New York and Los Angeles. Her most recent play, A Radical Friendship, a two-hander about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, has been seen in New York and Los Angeles starring Ed Asner. Janeâ??s first book, the best selling Acting Techniques for Everyday Life: Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult Real-Life Situations, is the basis for a USC study showing how effective the techniques are for helping veterans at their job interviews. Its accompanying deck of cards, Perform At Your Best: Acting Techniques for Business, Social, and Personal Success, won the Gold Axiom Business Book Award. Jane teaches workshops with the techniques in Topanga, at universities and corporations, and coaches privately. Her first one-woman play, Dear Nobody, co-authored with Terry Belanger, was nominated for an Obie, ran for a year Off-Broadway, was produced on CBS, and toured to London and all over the United States. Also in New York she starred in her three-character play Jane Avril. Her one-acts include: Bats in the Belfry, produced at the Spoleto Festival; Cornucopia, winner of The University of St. Thomas One Act Play Competition; and Norman and the Killer, a co-adaptation for PBS. Jane has acted in movies (Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky V, Arachnophobia); on TV (ER, The Heidi Chronicles); on Broadway (Richard III, Morning, Noon and Night); and played The Clown Ringmaster with Circus Flora. For more information go to www.janemarlarobbins.com