Jen Pan

Bio

Jen (she/they) is a queer movement, fight, and intimacy director; teacher; martial artist; and occasional creative. She teaches stage combat classes and works in professional and educational theatre throughout southeast Michigan. They are a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and have trained with Dueling Arts International, Intimacy Directors and Choreographers, and Theatrical Intimacy Education. As a fight and intimacy director, she thoughtfully collaborates with other artists to create safe, sustainable, and dynamic movements in storytelling using modern combat and theatre techniques.

Recent theatres she has worked with include Seattle Children’s Theatre, Detroit Public Theatre, The Croswell Opera House, Obsidian Theatre Festival, Detroit Repertory Theatre, University of Michigan SMTD, Eastern Michigan University, Oakland University, The Dio, Livonia Shakespeare in the Park, Penny Seats Theatre, Brevity Shakespeare, and Center Stage Jackson.

Jen is the co-founder and a lead instructor at Theatrica Gladiatoria, a year-round academy in SE Michigan for stage and film combat. They’re also the co-coordinator of the Mitten Mayhem Stage Combat Workshop held annually at the end of October. They’re passionate about lifelong learning, trauma-informed practices, intimacy and consent work, and greater BIPOC and LGBTQ+ representation in the arts.

In their free time, Jen collects board games, house plants, cats, graphic design inspiration tips, and recipe YouTube videos. They are bad at social media and keeping up with pop culture.