Jill MacLean earned her MFA in Musical Theater from San Diego State University. In New York, she was a professor at Marymount Manhattan College for three years teaching Musical Theater Techniques, Scene Into Song and New Musical Developmental Readings, a course she designed for which she commissioned and directed original pieces from emerging lyricists, librettists and composers. She has directed numerous ten-minute musicals for New York University's Undergraduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, and was the Directors Lab Assistant at Lincoln Center Theater for five years. As an actor, Jill has performed in the Bay Area, New York and regionally and is a member of Actors' Equity Association. Since returning to the Bay Area, Jill has joined the faculty for Las Positas College (Musical Theater Instructor), the Young Conservatory at American Conservatory Theatre, has been a teaching artist with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and StageWrite, and is a member of the Magic Theatre Artists Lab. Recent directing credits include Steven M. Salzman's The Expiration Date for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Elizabeth Hersh's Debt for the SF Playwrights Center. She is currently the Managing Producer of the Playwrights Foundation, a Teaching Artist for StageWrite, and director for the annual musical at Notre Dames des Victoires.