DIRECTING
"A formidable and fiercely driven talent for storytelling on stage. A BIG storyteller. " -Doug Wager, Former Artistic Director of Arena Stage
"Armina LaManna’s brilliant stagecraft… her flamboyant (in the best sense of the word) use of flowing drapes, the moments of frozen action, and her bridge scene— Grusha descends from scaffolding to walk precariously across the arms of the ensemble—punctuate Brecht’s play with moments of brilliant spectacle. Excellently staged." -BroadStreetReview |
"LaManna’s deliberate pacing helps to create an overall sense of unease, as though the actors have lost themselves in the characters, who, in turn, have lost themselves inside a twisted, waking nightmare… taking the 90-minute one-act to even creepier depths." - Backstage West |
Armina LaManna began her career in the theatre at the age of six at the Young Adult Musical Theatre Academy in the former USSR, where she performed in Gluck’s Orpheus and Euridice, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Debussy’s The Nutcracker, among others. Since then she went on to study, perform and teach in America and Russia.
Armina is the Founding Artistic Director of Imagine Theatre - LA County's new and only Equity theatre dedicated entirely to programming for young audiences. She is fiercely dedicated to advocating for a fair wage for all artists in the theatrical industry. Armina is also the Founder of Crescent Moon Entertainment - a producer of theatrical and cinematic stories.
Armina is the Founding Artistic Director of Imagine Theatre - LA County's new and only Equity theatre dedicated entirely to programming for young audiences. She is fiercely dedicated to advocating for a fair wage for all artists in the theatrical industry. Armina is also the Founder of Crescent Moon Entertainment - a producer of theatrical and cinematic stories.
Armina’s directing credits include: The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord at the Lantern Theatre (current project), Fool for Love at Crescent Moon Entertainment, The Tale of Turandot at Imagine Theatre, Fair at OC-Centric New Play Festival, A Woman of No Importance and Fast & Loose at Sacred Fools, Little Armenia at The Fountain Theatre, The Maids at ETC, The Leftover for the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance & Antaeus Theatre, Who's Your Baghdaddy?, Red Light Winter and Pushkin at Boldino at The Chance Theatre’s On the Radar Series, We Wait for Moving Arts‘ The Car Plays at Radar LA, The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Temple Theatres, Pushkin at Boldino at the Philly Fringe, A Lie of the Mind, together with The Zoo Story and Hello Out There at Temple Theatres, along with An Ideal Husband, A Marriage Proposal, Silenced and Heart in the Ground in Los Angeles; also Three Simple Words for Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Other credits: P.L.A.Y., Middle Passage, Circumference of a Squirrel at the Mark Taper Forum’s New Work Festival. Stage managing credits include the InterAct Theatre (Phila), The Colony Theatre, The Fountain Theatre, Groundlings 30th Anniversary at the Henry Fonda Theatre, the Los Angeles Repertory Co., The Interact Theatre (Los Angeles), the Grove Theatre Center, the Great American Playwriting Series, and the Pasadena Shakespeare Co. Armina’s writing and translation/adaptation credits include Warrior Queen Anahit the Brave, The Tale of Turandot, Pushkin at Boldino, Gogol’s The Government Inspector for The Lantern Theatre, Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
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Union Affiliations
-Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
-Actors' Equity Association
-The Dramatists Guild
Education
M.F.A. in Directing from Temple University
B.A. in Directing from CSU Fullerton
Russian Theatre Arts Academy (Russia)
Musical Theatre Academy (USSR)
Recipient of the Samuel S. Fels Fund Grant for Dramaturgy
Recipient of three Certificates of Merit for Directing from KC/ACTF
Click here to visit Armina's page on About The Artists. To hire Armina as a ghostwriter or script doctor, please write to arminalamannaATmac.com.
-Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
-Actors' Equity Association
-The Dramatists Guild
Education
M.F.A. in Directing from Temple University
B.A. in Directing from CSU Fullerton
Russian Theatre Arts Academy (Russia)
Musical Theatre Academy (USSR)
Recipient of the Samuel S. Fels Fund Grant for Dramaturgy
Recipient of three Certificates of Merit for Directing from KC/ACTF
Click here to visit Armina's page on About The Artists. To hire Armina as a ghostwriter or script doctor, please write to arminalamannaATmac.com.
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