Jan Citron

For Ms. Citron, growing up in Los Angeles meant going to television tapings more than museums; meeting magical people in all walks of life, without really knowing who they were. Surviving a perilous bicycle crack-up, it was out of the trees and Brownies, and into white gloves and the cha-cha at Paul Henreid's Cotillion. Civil minded, she led some of her 6th grade classmates in the 1969 march to hear Angela Davis' historic speech at the UCLA. Artistically inclined, she took up oil painting lessons the six months of Saturdays she was grounded for dodging school to attend the rally. A precocious cinéphile, Zefferelli's: Romeo & Juliet, roused her early to the Bard's seemingly effortless beauty and wisdom, and a summer of Shakespeare Studies in Cambridge during high school. Ken Russell's: Music Lover's, inspired her to study the piano, beginning her college career at United States International University's School of Performing & Visual Arts, as a Classical Piano Major. After USC and a Sem