Jan Marlyn Reesman

Jan was born sometime in the last century in Trenton New Jersey. ====================================================================== Her Italian American family was dysfunctional but fun. Her father owned stock car tracks; Rocky was also a stock car driver. Her Mom, Lucy, was a housewife most of the year and a stunt driver in the summer. ====================================================================== Jan was always an animal lover. To this day she has many cats and dogs. ====================================================================== She started in beauty pageants early. Proud to say she won many including Miss NJ. She lost her crown when they found out that she was only 15. ====================================================================== Jan was a terrible student but managed to pass and learn the 3 R’s and how to manipulate the system. ====================================================================== On summer vacation at 16, Jan’s Mom, Lucky Lucy, took her to visit family in Miami. They encouraged her to try to become a Bunny for the summer. Using what she learned in school, Jan was able to get the required police card (stating her age as 23) and she became a Bunny. During Bunny training, she was given a hundred dollar bill to purchase a pack cigarettes and bunny lighter and told to keep the change. Jersey was never like this. ====================================================================== Joe Torre, then a baseball rookie, was a Playboy member along with his brother Frank. Jan dated him for a while. A note: I heard that he later married a Bunny. ====================================================================== Jan’s true age was found out. She went back to Jersey. When she turned 18 Jan went to Chicago and worked there for a summer. HATED IT! Dated Joe Torre in Chicago. ====================================================================== Opened the NY Playboy club, working days. (Had to be 21 to work nights) Great years. ====================================================================== Left Playboy to have a baby and be a Jersey wife. Jan was a bookie and mother in Jersey. Her son is a person everyone should aspire to become. ====================================================================== Age 21, finally legal. Left the current husband and back to NY Club to work the showrooms. Big bucks. Studied acting 5 days a week. Very Method. ====================================================================== Met Gabe Kaplan at The Improv (before he was a Playboy comic). Some fun years. ==================================================================== Off to Los Angeles for a summer, which turned into a permanent move. Became a veterinarian technician. Oh, Jan went to Fordham University at Lincoln Center, which made her eligible to take a test to become an Animal Health Technician. Flash forward; she became a very successful Animal Behaviorist. Clients included, Whoopi Golberg, Calvin Klein, Billy Crystal, James Caan, Dyan Cannon, Richard Dryfus, Barry Diller, Sandy Gallin, Jack Warner Estate dogs, Burt Bachrach and more… ====================================================================== Simultaneously Jan became part of a theater company and over the next ten years or so and three different theater companies, Jan left acting, and became a theater producer and then director. Opportunity moved her into casting and then personal management. All these Jan considered “day jobs”. ====================================================================== The management was a success monetarily but actors were harder to house train then dogs. Actors that Jan found while directing and teaching acting at Tracy Roberts Theater and Actors Alley became stars. Really! But film called. (Jan LITERALLY started the careers of John Corbett and Cynthia Stevenson) ====================================================================== Jan’s first film was that “USA’s Up All Night” classic, Bikini Car Wash. Onto a TV pilot and after being accepted into the American Film Institutes Directing Workshop For Women, several award winning shorts. ====================================================================== Along the way Jan started writings plays and then film. This and directing are her real passion. ====================================================================== Jan’s and her actor husband (who she met while directing him in a play) opened a coffeehouse and theater in North Hollywood. It was called The Kindness Of Strangers. It had a successful five-year run. During that time, Jan wrote TV sit coms and was hired as a staff writer on an NBC sitcom that was snuffed out by the network. ====================================================================== Jan has observed on, Seinfeld, Coach, Suddenly Susan, Renegade, the wonderful West Wing and CSI Miami. ====================================================================== She oil paints and taught classes and now is an avid photographer. MAC WIZARD TOO! ====================================================================== Jan is on the board of directors for Alliance Of Women Directors. ====================================================================== Jan lives in the an artist community in Beverly; Hills, that is.., with actor husband Robb Reesman. They have been married twelve wonderful years. Jan had tested out four other husbands but cut them loose. ====================================================================== They have seven cats, a Doberman, an eighteen-year-old African Parrot name Huey. Jan cast Huey in a TV show when he was a baby. She went to court to keep Huey. She lost but kept him anyway. A Jersey thing.