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Shoshana Kuttner
Shoshana has been joyfully teaching and directing
young performers since the beginning of her career
as an actor and dancer. She began her professional
acting career in San Francisco, with the San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Shoshana then toured with two productions nationally,
The Secret Garden and
A Christmas Carol before landing in New York City,
where she performed at Lincoln Center in
A Wrinkle In Time. In upstate New York,
she directed productions of the musicals
West Side Story, Footloose, Oliver,
and
Free to
Be You and Me.
Shoshana began working in the
community of Malibu in 2004 as Executive Director
of Malibu Actors Studio. In 2006 she co-founded
the Young Actors Project and continues to offer
professional youth acting programs and exciting
performances in Malibu year round. Some of her Young
Actors Project directing and producing credits include
A Wrinkle In Time, Alice In Wonderland,
The Birthday Girl, Flight International and
Summer.
Shoshana graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor’s
Degree in Drama and Dance from San Francisco State
University and received an
advanced certificate in Classical Theatre from Oxford
University in the UK. She is also a certified Yoga
teacher and most recently the producer of,
and an actor in, the independent film
She’s Gone,
shot in NYC.
Her passion for sharing her love of ‘all things theatre’
shines through in her teaching and she prides
herself in helping to create a talented company
of young actors that inspire her with their
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John
Henry Litten
John Henry Litten is an accomplished playwright,
actor, and co-founder of the Young Actors
Project. John creates new plays and adapts classic
stories for the actors he works with. Most notable are
his adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, performed
at Malibu Performing Arts Center, and his original works
The Birthday Girl and The Boy and The Tooth
Thief, which were highlights of the Young Actors
Project 2007 Fall season at Malibu Stage Company.
As a
student at San Diego State University he studied
Children’s Theatre under the wing of Margaret Larlham, a
published playwright who brought her unique blend of
movement, music, and creative writing to the forefront
of each of her original performances. While studying at
S.D.S.U John was able to perform in Mexico, Russia, and
at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival held in South
Africa: the second largest acting festival in the world.
He became a part of many honor societies including The
Golden Key Honor Society and was an active member of the
Mortar Board honor society.
Soon after earning is B.A.
in Theatre, John created Teatro de Luna, a traveling
theatre company dedicated to bringing bilingual shows to
elementary schools in California. It was during his
Teatro De Luna period, where Litten began to write and
perform his own material. His first full length play,
Jettison Speaks opened for an audience of two
thousand in Tijuana, Mexico. Soon after, John followed
Jettison Speaks with a collaborative piece
entitled, The Boy and the Tooth Thief, an
original fairy tale about the dire consequences society
would face if stories were no longer told. The Boy
and the Tooth Thief won top prizes at the
International Theatre Festival in San Diego, and was
recently re-adapted for John’s students at the Young
Actors Project. |
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