Meet Our Teachers
Sierra School of Performing Arts is proud to contract with some of the finest performing arts teaching artists in Northern Nevada and Northeastern California. If you have any questions about our teachers, please email sierraschoolofperformingarts@gmail.com.
Janet Lazarus is a co-founder and the producing artistic director of SSPA, and has been directing their musical productions since 2005. She is a graduate of the MFA program in acting at UCLA and has appeared in over 30 productions in such places as New York, Los Angeles, Rome (Italy) and most recently Northern Nevada. She has been directing and teaching theater in Hawaii, Reno and Tahoe schools and arts organizations for over 25 years, including University of Nevada Reno, Hawaii School for Girls, Lake Tahoe Community College, Arts for the Schools, Bishop Manogue Catholic High School and Sage Ridge School.
Luis Galvez is a Junior at the University of Nevada, Reno majoring in Acting, Secondary Education, and History. While his emphasis at UNR is on acting, his studies include extensive work on voice, speech, and musical theater performance. His most recent roles include Ed in Evil Dead: The Musical, Herr Schultz in Cabaret, and Lurch in The Addams Family Musical here at the Sierra School of Performing Arts. He is currently instructing our Broadway Triple Threat: Voice and Performance class.
Emily is a classically trained singer who performs in six different languages. Her experience ranges from classical oratorio/opera and musical theatre to rock, jazz and punk. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music and Voice from CSU, Chico, where she was the recipient of various musical scholarships. She owned and operated Hammer Productions, which produced two live stage shows at John Ascuaga’s Nugget, “Sweet and Lowdown: a Gershwin Revue”, and an original musical production she co- wrote and produced with her brother, “Visceral”. She has performed all over the Reno/Tahoe area for many years both professionally and at the community level. One of her favorite roles was Christine Daae in Nevada Civic Light Opera’s production of Phantom of the Opera in Concert. Emily has been teaching voice since she graduated from college at many schools, colleges and privately in the Reno/Tahoe/Carson area. She is happy to be working with the team and students at SSPA this fall teaching Broadway Triple Threat: Voice and Performance.
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Tom Ready
Tom Ready has been teaching theatre and language arts for the past 22 years at Lassen High School, Lassen Community College, Chico State, and within the Arts-in-Corrections program at CCC Susanville, and High Desert Stage Prison. He has worked as a theatre consultant for the California Arts Project, the Northeast California Arts Project, and has presented workshops for the California Reading Association, California Association for the Gifted, California Association of Resources Specialists, and California Association of Teachers of English. Tom was awarded a national Christa McAuliffe Fellowship for the 1997-98 school year in the areas of drama, literacy, and educational restructuring following which he attended the National McAuliffe Institute in Washington DC as the California state representative. His first book, GrammarWars, was published in the fall of 2000. The sequel, Grammar Wars II was published in the spring of 2002. He is currently instucting our Acting Fundamentals for Teens class. 
Alyssa von Eberstein is a musical theater and dance double major at UNR. Her previous credits include, Addams Family (Ancestor, Dance Captain, Understudy for Wednesday), Stupid F*cking Bird (Mash), Working (Rose Hoffman), and Little Women (Amy U/S). She is currently instructing our Little Sprouts, Broadway Song and Dance!, and Broadway Triple Threat: Voice and Performance classes.
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