IN PERSON CLASS

Broaden your experience at Theater J’s shows by joining our Season Book Club!  Managing Director David Lloyd Olson will select one fiction or non-fiction book that adds color and context to each of our five season shows. Before seeing the show, participants will read the book, and after the run of the show (so that everyone can see it on their own schedule), you’ll join David at Theater J for a rich discussion about the deeper meaning of the work and how it speaks to you.

David Lloyd Olson made his stage debut at age five at the Marcus JCC of Atlanta Zaban preschool and is now proud to be one of the leaders of the nation’s largest professional Jewish theater at the Edlavitch DCJCC. Prior to joining Theater J in 2021, he was managing director of Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia. He has previously held positions at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, GALA Hispanic Theatre, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Pointless Theatre (John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company). He was an Allen Lee Hughes management fellow at Arena Stage, a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Valmiera, Latvia, and the recipient of two DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Fellowship program grants. He proudly serves on the boards of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre (alljewishtheatre.org) and Adas Israel Congregation.