Co-founder and  Producing Artistic Director of Glow Lyric Theatre, Jenna Tamisiea Elser is a versatile performer, stage director and educator in theatre, musical theatre, and opera. She recently served as Director of the Converse Opera Theatre at Converse College until 2019, and has directed and taught workshops at Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona, Missouri State University, and California State University. Jenna has also performed and directed with companies across the South and Southeast, including The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Light Opera Oklahoma, Centre Stage South Carolina, The Arkansas Art Center Children’s Theatre, North Carolina Shakespeare, and Atlanta’s Synchronicity Performance Group, Aurora Theatre, Legacy Theatre, 14th Street Playhouse and Seven Stages Theatre. MFA (Directing) Florida State University, BFA (Acting/Musical Theatre) The University of Tulsa.