Board of Directors

Jan Czechowski

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Washington and Jefferson College

Dr. Jan Czechowski is originally from Chicago (NW side) and earned his BFA and MA in Theatre from the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D in Theatre from the University of Michigan. Most recently, he serves as the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Washington & Jefferson College. He has been with the College since 2005. Prior to this, he served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul MN, beginning in 1999. Additionally, he taught at Grinnell College for 23 years, beginning in 1976. During that time also served as Assistant Dean of the Faculty, Director of Off-Campus Study, Chair of the Humanities Division, Chair of the Theatre Department, Project Director for the Buxbaum Center for the Arts, among other things.

In 1998, he organized and ran a three day symposium under the auspices of the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights, on Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland. The panel included a Northern Irish historian as well as members from five of the major political parties in Northern Ireland representing both sides of the conflict as well as the Women’s Coalition.

He has extensive professional design and directing experience in both academic and professional arenas, e.g., Riverside Theatre in Iowa City and as Resident Designer at the Old Creamery Theatre for 10 years, also in Iowa. His most recent creative work occurred in March 2008 when he directed The Idiots Karamazov at Washington and Jefferson.

He has been a member of ACAD since 2000 and on the Board beginning in 2007.