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Glass Co. Inc. is an independent video production company, founded by Jane L. Glassco in 1988 to produce a series about the lives of individual Canadians told in their own words. The series became Our Stories.
Jane was Executive Producer, Narrator and Interviewer of Our Stories, as well as director of the first three documentaries (Johnny Johns, Koko Kokubo, and Connie Matthews).
She is also an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a highly respected member of the radio and television production industry.
Jane's career began in theatre. In 1970, she and her (then) husband and partner, Bill Glassco ran and directed "The Red Barn" a small summer theatre at Lake Simcoe. They won critical acclaim for their productions and only lost $450 that year - a financial record. In 1971, they started Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, where, for seven successful years, she was their managing director. After minor financial losses in the first year, the theatre was in the black, producing brand new plays written by Canadians.
Following her experience at Tarragon, Jane spent a year working at Saturday Night Magazine. In 1979, she attended Ryerson Polytechnical Institute where she obtained a graduate degree in journalism. While there, Jane and a classmate, Frank Giorno, won acclaim for breaking the story to The Globe and Mail about a radium dump located under a provincially built, low-income housing project in Scarborough, Ontario.
After graduating from Ryerson, Jane worked for five years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's top current affairs program Market Place as a researcher and producer. Then, she spent two seasons as a field producer for a new children's CBC science series, Wonderstruck. During this time, Jane was also a freelance print journalist, writing for several publications including The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star.
Since Our Stories was completed, Jane has been freelance directing. She is now working on a new project using film as a tool to help people resolve their community justice issues and labour disputes.
From 1987 to the present, Jane has been actively involved on the board of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation. She also sits on the board of the World Literacy Foundation, and raises organic lamb on a farm north of Toronto.
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