Jan Short, Lecturer in Theatre Arts, is a graduate of Morgan State University (1991). She received her Masters of Arts degree in Theatre from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio (1995). Ms. Short joined the Morgan State Fine Arts and Speech Communication Departments as a lecturer in the fall of 1995.

She has directed several Theatre productions and Oral Interpretation presentations while at Morgan State University. Some of her directing works consist of The Medea Myth, T-Bone and Weasel, Big Momma ‘n Em, Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery, The Vagina Monologues. "I Ain't Noways Tired", "Vignettes from the African-American Male Experience" and "The Conductor's Song".

Ms. Short has directed the children's play, "The Storytrain," a collection of world trickster tales which she adapted for the stage. Also directed by Ms. Short are Theatre Morgan's productions of Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, the stage reading of Joanne Braxton's Crossing a Deep River, and the stage reading of Dwight R.B. Cook's A Prayer. She co-directed the Pulitzer Prize-winning production Topdog/Underdog and James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones.

To her credit is a collection of monologues created for the Mt. Auburn Cemetery project, "Living History Program: Into the Future from Our Past" and many creative performance scripts for local museums and art venues.