The Lab Team

Jaster specializes in physical expression and communication as a performer, director, educator, and facilitator. Her work onstage, in the world, and in the classroom focuses on the cross-cultural and humanizing potential of performance. As Associate Director of The Lab, she works with international artists at the intersection of politics and performance and develops courses to share the skills of the stage for the sake of diplomacy and advocacy. She teaches Movement at The Shakespeare Theater Company’s Academy of Classical Acting, and is an Associate Artist of Heartbeat Opera in NYC, where she received a rave review in the NYT for her stage direction of Lady M. She has directed movement at Shakespeare Theater Company, The Folger Theater, Center Stage, Round House Theater, Constellation, Theater J, and others regionally and internationally. She has studied and made work in France, India, Taiwan, China, Poland, Italy, and Palestine. In addition to Georgetown and George Washington Universities, she has taught at such institutions as IDEO, MoMA, and Cornell Tech and is the founder of the international artist residency mamaisamaker. She started onstage at the age of 6 with her father, mime Mark Jaster, later studied at the Lecoq school in Paris, the Natanakairali Institute in India and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center. She has developed work with Dalianshang International Theater Festival in China, and the Grotowski-based Teatr Zar in Poland, among others. She is the recipient of multiple grants and residencies including a fellowship with the Asian Cultural Council for extended cultural exchange in Taiwan.
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