An Intensive Scene Study with Elly-award winning Janis Stevens!

Coaching and direction for the course will be based on the tools of Stanislavski and focus will also be given to “external skills” (vocal and physical expressiveness). Scenes will be selected by Ms. Stevens. Class size is a maximum of 10 students.

Janis Stevens is well-known in Sacramento for the many roles she has played with various theatres throughout the area as well as receiving much acclaim for the productions she has directed at Capital Stage, California Stage and the Sacramento Theatre Company.

Janis received the Elly’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 and has been an Adjunct Professor of Theatre Arts at American River College since 2003. She received her MFA from Ohio University’s Professional Actor Training Program and began her professional career at the Old Globe in San Diego. She worked in the English-speaking theatres of Vienna, Austria for ten years. Continue reading →