Stephanie Vlahos

Stephanie Vlahos is an Author. Thanks you for your interest in my new work as an Author of Visionary Fiction. And a writer for stage performers with talent in music and acting.

I have had several websites. Recently www.werglobal.show. This had new works as a Creator and Performer. Now I have brought these together to develop and grow through collaboration with others as we all journey to bring voice to the word.

As an Author, our personal lives shift, and with the shifts, the balance in our careers. We make new choices in tectonic emotional jolts.

Moving away from singing and directing operas or envisioning orchestral works for stage. I divorced, met a Scot, moved, changed up what had become comfortable and familiar, and have attempted to navigate the story of an American in Scotland.

My father, John Vlahos, wrote for radio and the silver screen in Hollywood. Later, when he went on to write for early television in New York City, what some people refer to as The Golden Age of Television.

Never liking living in Los Angeles he discovered the lush green summers of Connecticut, and he moved the family to a house on a hill.

I have always had a fondness for silly books that somehow pack a wallop, like Archie and Mehitabel, I have just published my little expressive absurdity about an ambivalent astronaut en route to Mars, called, JOHN K – Am I Alone?  The book is also featured as a pop culture bible in the novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend. 

The stories I tell can be seen as metaphor or metaphysical. They are stories about people coping under extraordinary circumstances some might characterize as sci-fi or paranormal.

I call my stories fairy tales, and if the element of sci-fi exists, it is more a reflection of possibility and personal challenge than spaceships and ray guns.  

What we have been and where we might be going. Stephanie Vlahos becomes John K who hitches a ride on a mission to Mars. A place of potential aliens. She is inside his thoughts as he traverses the outer space.
‘I am a motorcyclist in a hailstorm recklessly speeding by the grace of a slipstream.

Theatre Travels

In my early teens, I was asked to sing in two madrigal ensembles. One professional, the other semi-professional. And I loved to harmonize and blend, even with old people…

I became a professional opera singer. A tiny voice in my chest said yes after a conductor friend suggested I might move to Los Angeles and audition for a new international opera company.

I put my bull terrier into my car and moved West, all on the whim of the word yes, and it paid off. And all those singer friends in NYC who had laughed at the idea of opera in Los Angeles started calling me, asking if I might assist them in jumping on the LA Opera bandwagon.

I stumbled at one point in the glorious upswing of the Opera . It takes great resolve to stand proud in it. Somewhere in the mix, I had forgotten my relationship to the joy of singing. I had forgotten what I had to say.

I jumped off the merry-go-round to explore solo performance under my own steam and unhindered by grand opera’s bluster and demands. Platforming my work as performance art where I could study and explore the art of cabaret, vaudeville, and music hall, creating solo shows where I received the dubious distinction from Associated Press as The Moonlighting Diva.

Along the way I have been working as a Performer to develop and nurture new and emerging talent.

I became an Equity stage director.

With that I moved deeper into my inner creative voice. And these precious explorations into people and their stories matured through a different medium of expression.

As silence can be as musical as sound. My productions always had a soundtrack. 

Stephanie Vlahos regards herself as a performer’s director. Projects have included Tristan and Isolde. 

Tosca with Intimate Opera, Tales of Hoffmann and Cendrillon with the Cole Conservatory Opera Institute at Cal State Long Beach, The Magic Flute at the Luckman Theater, and Oliver! at the Alex Theater.

Alan Rich of the LA Weekly
wrote of the Stephanie Vlahos production of Street Scene by Kurt Weill

The show is a lively, beautifully staged, stark and vigorous facsimile of drama and music.

Stephanie Vlahos Bringing voice to the word

New works are in development bringing original stories and compelling voices to the fore.

Reach in and don’t reach out – inspire as Collaborator and support new works.

Our stories are told dramatically, and, what I am most excited about is, many of the stories address (dramatically) the process of creation.
We represent both prequel, talkback, exploration, dramatic work, all in one grab.

Stephanie Vlahos – The New Current