• How do you get 10,000 hours of experience when directing requires so much time, money and people: Europe or Yale?
• What can Shakespeare and Ibsen teach you about directing TV? Everything…
• Frances McDormand, Angela Bassett, John Turturo, Tony Shalhoub and Courtney Vance -- how do you quickly figure out what different actors need to create great performances?
• What happens when you direct a play about South African apartheid in St. Louis in the early 1980s?
• On shadowing directors: “I’m already a director -- what am I doing watching these people? I mean, they’re good, but I’m good, too. And that was the kind of confidence -- or maybe you could say arrogance, fearlessness - -that it takes to go into a field that is predominantly male and actually make a dent and get a job.”
• How a twisty game of cat-and-mouse with Barney Rosensweig led to Jan’s first directing gig -- on Cagney & Lacey. (S5, EP13 -- “Act of Conscience”).
• Directing L.A. Law -- and David Kelly’s very first script!
• How asking others for advice is a gift that goes both ways.
• Directing two classic, fan-favorite episodes of Miami Vice.
• Jan gets her first feature film in 1988: How I Got Into College -- but you won’t believe what happened to her on Day Two of filming…
• Past Midnight -- working with the great Rutger Hauer and Natasha Richardson.
• Is the window for women directors opening or closing? Jan gives us her take.

So, join Susan, Sharon -- and Jan -- as they talk Dennis Farina, Michael Moriarty, Rutger Hauer, Paul Giamatti, Daniel Craig, Meg Foster, Sela Ward, Swoosie Kurtz, Kirsten Dunst, George Clooney, Patricia Arquette, Stanley Tucci -- and creamsicles!