Lars Jan is a director, media artist, and founding artistic director of Early Morning Opera, a trans-disciplinary artlab based in Los Angeles.  His original performance and film works have been seen at The Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), Symphony Space (NYC), REDCAT (LA), the Venice Architectural Biennale, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Not so long ago, he trained and performed with a Bunraku company in Kyoto for a year. During the summer of 2005, he taught as an artist-in-residence at Kabul University and developed a number of public art projects in Afghanistan with the support of a grant from the US State Department.  More recently, he was a Fellow at Princeton University’s Atelier program. Lars recently completed his MFA in Directing and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts as a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar. Lars is the recipient of the 2008 Sherwood Award, granted by Center Theatre Group to an innovative theatre artist in Los Angeles.  His new performance installation, [AB][AC][US] will be developed in residence at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY) through October 2010.