Quietly Innovative Equity Stage Director
What the critics say about Director Stephanie Vlahos
A Lion in Winter Director Stephanie Vlahos
Director Stephanie Vlahos, who had been a professional opera singer, understands that The Lion in Winter is the stuff of grand opera. She gives the confrontations between the characters an intensity that arias were made to capture
Greg Simay, My Burbank – A Lion in Winter
Ian Buchanan, and Mariette Hartley in The Lion in Winter.
Director Stephanie Vlahos.
Director Stephanie Vlahos keeps a tight rein on her cast; they act large but never over the top. Their emotions are real and true.
Rob Stevens, My Haines – A Lion in Winter
With drama on as a majestic a scale as this, Stephanie Vlahos proves an inspired choice to direct the near operatic Lion In Winter, a play which she stages quite grandly indeed, beginning with a striking opening sequence which has characters striding across the stage one by one as Eleanor looks down from her prison tower.
Steven Stanley, StageSceneLA – A Lion in Winter
The Morini Strad Director Stephanie Vlahos
The Morini Strad, written by Willy Holtzman, Director Stephanie Vlahos.
Starring Mariette Hartley.
Director Stephanie Vlahos reworks genre conventions to delicately rubato effect.
David Nichols – LA Times – The Morini Strad
Under Stephanie Vlahos’ brilliant direction, the monologues interweave like the musical lines of a duet. We begin to see that playwright Willy Holzman intends Erica and Brian to become aware of a deeper unity that already exists between them.
– MyBurnbank – Greg Simay – The Morini Strad
Stephanie Vlahos’s theatrical direction, weaving seamlessly from grand to delicately nuanced, seems orchestrated as a musical composition rather than a play.
Backstage – Travis Michael Holder – The Morini Strad
Old Wicked Songs Director Stephanie Vlahos
Jon Marans’ 1996 Pulitzer Prize-nominated Old Wicked Songs.
Director Stephanie Vlahos
Director Stephanie Vlahos guides the remarkably natural performances with a light hand.
Culture Monster – LA Times– Old Wicked Songs
The Colony’s director, Stephanie Vlahos, is a former professional opera singer herself, and her knowledge of the interplay between teacher and student is probably more authentic than you’ll encounter in most revivals of Marans’ work.
LA Stage Times – Don Shirley, Old Wicked Songs
She has found two actors in Towey and Danz who convincingly play and sing their own music without relying on recordings ““ and they are no less convincing in their spoken dialogue. This is a remarkable revival of a play that appears to be close to achieving classic stature.
Amahl and the Night Visitors Director Stephanie Vlahos
Gian Carlo Menotti’s beloved Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Director Stephanie Vlahos.
Featuring Malcolm McDowell.
The one act is filled with “unabashed whimsicality,” as Director Stephanie Vlahos notes in the program.
Pasadena Star News – Robert Thomas,
She does an effective job of accentuating those qualities by telling the story without resorting to unnecessary gimmicks, aided by Kate Bergh’s costumes, Jared A. Sayeg’s lighting scheme, and Conny Mathot’s choreography.
about Amahl and the Night Visitors at the Pasadena Playhouse