Jan Farrington

Jan Farrington is a freelance writer and editor based in Fort Worth, and the managing editor of ONSTAGE NTX. She was for many years a theater critic and feature writer for TheaterJones.com, and is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association. She received the 2024 Arts Advocate Award from the Tarrant County Live Theatre Association.

Jan has a journalism master’s from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and began her career in Chicago as a writer/editor for a magazine publishing house. She is the winner of nine “EdPress” awards for excellence in educational journalism.

Her passionate interest in arts journalism dates to that decade in Chicago, when exciting new theater companies seemed to be opening up on every other street corner. “For five bucks,” she remembers, “you could see John Malkovich onstage, Gary Sinise, Laurie Metcalf, William H. Macy early in their careers.”

Ultimately, she traces the theater bug back to her dad, who asked her to run lines with him for his role in a Fort Worth community theater production of Christopher Fry’s Sleep of Prisoners. Jan is delighted to be writing about the exciting North Texas theater scene…again.