Jane S. Armitage recently retired as a long time theatre faculty member at Oberlin College where she served as Chair of the Theater and Dance Program. She has been active with Thespians for many years, beginning with Troupe 100 in Charleston, West Virginia.

Jane served a three year term on the EdTA board, where she was chair of teacher development. Perhaps most visible to EdTA members are Armitage's many contributions to the International Thespian Festival. She founded and directed the scholarship program for student delegates and college representatives; she adjudicated shows under mainstage consideration; she directed two memorable All-Ohio productions for mainstage, The Crucible and Strider; she has taught a number of workshops for teachers and helped launch the Thespian Playworks program in memory of Doug Finney. Most recently she co-directed the California All State Thespian Play with Marie Glotzbach, long active in Ohio Thespians.

Armitage has traveled as an official EdTA delegate to the People's Republic of China in l996. She was awarded the Educational Theatre Association's Founders Award in l986 and was inducted into the EdTA Hall of Fame in l995.