Staff
Producing Artistic Director/Education Director
Janet Lazarus
Sierra School of Performing Arts is excited to announce we have signed a contract with one of our founders to become our first Producing Artistic Director/Education Director. Janet Lazarus started her official duties on January 2, 2018. She has been guiding SSPA and creating great theater for us since 2005.
Janet received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and her Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in acting from UCLA. She has worked and performed in stage, film and/or television in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Italy, Honolulu, Lake Tahoe and Reno. In 1988, while living and working in Los Angeles, she co-wrote and co-starred in a critically acclaimed two-woman comedy that garnered rave reviews and was featured as a “critic’s pick” in the L.A. Times.
She has taught acting and movement classes since 1990 at various schools and colleges throughout California and Hawaii, and has taught theatre, acting and stage make up classes in Reno (at UNR, Bishop Manogue Catholic School and Sage Ridge School) since 2008. Since coming to Reno, she has performed with Reno Little Theater, Tahoe Players, the Nevada Shakespeare Company, and Take 2, and has been producing and directing “Broadway Bits” and full length classic Broadway musicals.
As Producing Artistic Director/Education Director for Sierra School of Performing Arts, Janet will continue to produce and direct musicals, as well as start our youth theater program. She will also oversee our performing arts camps and classes.
Janet received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and her Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in acting from UCLA. She has worked and performed in stage, film and/or television in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Italy, Honolulu, Lake Tahoe and Reno. In 1988, while living and working in Los Angeles, she co-wrote and co-starred in a critically acclaimed two-woman comedy that garnered rave reviews and was featured as a “critic’s pick” in the L.A. Times.
She has taught acting and movement classes since 1990 at various schools and colleges throughout California and Hawaii, and has taught theatre, acting and stage make up classes in Reno (at UNR, Bishop Manogue Catholic School and Sage Ridge School) since 2008. Since coming to Reno, she has performed with Reno Little Theater, Tahoe Players, the Nevada Shakespeare Company, and Take 2, and has been producing and directing “Broadway Bits” and full length classic Broadway musicals.
As Producing Artistic Director/Education Director for Sierra School of Performing Arts, Janet will continue to produce and direct musicals, as well as start our youth theater program. She will also oversee our performing arts camps and classes.