Book-It's co-artistic directors

Jane Jones is the founder of Book-It and founding Co-Artistic Director of Book-It Repertory Theatre. In her 18 years of staging literature, she has performed and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 25 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres, including The Guthrie, American Conservatory Theatre, The McCarter and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Locally, she has been seen at The Rep, ACT, Empty Space, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, and Intiman. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, Twin Peaks, and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at the Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle and at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Backstage West Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane recently directed Pride and Prejudice at Portland Center Stage. For Book-It, she directed The House of Mirth, Rebecca, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howards End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening and Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Book-It performances include roles in Breathing Lessons, Ethan Frome, Silver Water, and Cowboys Are My Weakness.

Myra Platt is cofounder and co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre. She studied theatre at Northwestern University (B.S. Analysis and Performance of Literature) and Circle in the Square (NYC). As actor, director, adapter and composer, she has helped Book-It produce over 30 world-premiere stage adaptations. She has adapted and directed Giant, Red Ranger Came Calling, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud (by James Joyce), A Telephone Call (by Dorothy Parker), and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. She has also directed Cry, the Beloved Country, Sweet Thursday, The Phantom Tollbooth and Danger: Books! She co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant (with Jane Jones) and composed music for Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Awakening, the first workshop production of The Cider House Rules, A Telephone Call and I Am of Ireland. As an actress, Myra appeared as Margaret Schlegel in Howards End (at Book-It) in The Dying Gaul at Intiman and as Edna in Book-It’s production of The Awakening (for which she received an Honorable Mention/Backstage West Los Angeles Garland Award). She originated the role of Candy Kendall in John Irving's The Cider House Rules at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She is the proud mother of Wilson.