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Center Stage Theatre Appoints Liz Muller as Creative Director
She will provide support to all creative, technical and educational staff on current programming, help develop ideas for future programming.
Nancy Sasso Janis was a kindergarten and first grade teacher in Naugatuck for 37 years. She grew up in Stratford and has lived in Naugatuck since the early eighties.
Nancy has long been a patron of the arts. She can often be seen singing in various churches and occasionally on TV on the daily Celebration of the Eucharistic on WCCT-TV. She got a lead harmony vocals and creation credit on a CD recorded by singer/songwriter Robert Jones entitled 'Above Here.'
She also frequents local theaters for a wide variety of productions. Nancy secured her first acting credit when she appeared in the 2006 Maple Hill production of "Schoolhouse Rock Live, Jr." under the direction of Dave Gardino. She played the lead role of a brand new teacher renamed Pearl Morton and performed the final song "Interjections." More recent credits include Martha in the Phoenix Stage Company production of "The Last Supper: A Musical Enactment" in March 2012 and Maria and Meg in "Bad Auditions by Bad Actors" in the PSC-produced reader's theatre at the Whittemore Library (May 2012.) She has appeared as Harriet Beecher Stowe and herself on the old-time radio program "Nutmeg Junction" on WAPJ in Torrington and other stations.
Recent credits include the role of Marty in The Golden Year's Theatre Company's 2023 production of "Grease" and a featured member of the ensemble for Newbury Musical Theatre Company's production of "Fiddler on the Roof." She recently played Blue Fairy in the Seven Angels Children's Theatre production of "Pinocchio" under the direction of Scott Kealey.
Nancy is the author of a musical for children entitled 'Lessons in Mother Goose' that she hopes to produce in the future.
She is the membership chair of the Connecticut Critics Circle, an organization that reviews Equity productions. Nancy has been working as a feature writer and theater reviewer for Waterbury's Republican-American newspaper for two years. Her weekly column "In the Wings" appears in the Thursday Weekend section of the paper.
Nancy continues to contribute theater news to local Patch sites. Follow her new Facebook page Nancy Sasso Janis: Theatre Reviewer and on Twitter @nancysjanis417.
She will provide support to all creative, technical and educational staff on current programming, help develop ideas for future programming.
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