What the Night is For	Melinda	Playhouse West
Love Letters	Melissa Opposite Peter Donat	PlayhouseWest and Willows
Light Sensitive	Edna (Bay Area Critic's Circle Award)	Playhouse West
Lovers and Other Strangers	Wilma	Playhouse West
Two for the Seesaw	Gittel	Playhouse West
Smile	Brenda	Willows Theatre
Oklahoma!	Laurey opposite Peter Palmer	NYC Tour
Peter Pan	Tiger Lil with Sandy Duncan	NYC Tour
The Yearling	Jody's Girlfriend	Broadway, NYC
Carousel	Louise with John Raitt & Jan Clayton	Carter Baron Amphi, Wash. DC
The Sound of Music	Leisl	National Co.
The Boy Friend	Dulcie	Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC
He Who Gets Slapped	Consuelo	Equity Library Theatre, NYC
Very Good Eddie	Elsie Darling	NYC Tour
Finian's Rainbow	Susan with Leslie Gore	St. Paul Opera
The Music Man	Zaneeta with Bert Parks	NYC Tour
West Side Story	Maria	NYC Tour
Brigadoon	Jean	Cohasset Mass.
King of the Whole Damn World	Cat Girl	Off Broadway, NYC
The Decameron	Dianora	Off Broadway, NYC

Trauma	Waitress	NBC
Up and Coming	HS Drama Teacher, recurring	PBS
James Bond in Dance	Leading Dancer	CBC
Bell Telephone Hour (several)	Featured Dancer	Network TV
COMMERCIALS
Over 40 national, regional and local commercials		New York City and San Francisco
CABARET
Purple Onion, 1177 Club, Chez Jaques, The Sea Witch		San Francisco
FILM
Over 50 training and Industrial films: Mervyns, Crocker Bank, Bank of America, American Motors etc.
GUEST ARTIST
The White House	Dream Ballet Duet from Oklahoma!	with Kevin Carlisle
Soloist (ballerina)	With Philadelphia Orchestra	Philadelphia, PA

All musicals were directed and choreographed by Lois Grandi
Enchanted April		Richard B. Evans, Charles Leipart	Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre
Chorus Line		James Kirkwood, Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban	Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre
She Loves Me		Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock	Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre
Chicago		Fred Ebb, John Kander, Bob Fosse	Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre
WInter Wonderettes		Roger Bean	Willows Theatre Company
Directed at Playhouse West
In This House		Sarah Schlesinger, Mike Reid	World Premiere, 4 Bay Area Critic's Circle Awards
The Brute and Other Farces		Anton Checkhov
When Something Wonderful Ends		Sherry Kramer	Bay Area Critic's Circle Nomination
Celebrate Playhouse West – Our Musical Legacy		Revue – many composers
Oleanna		David Mamet
Here on the Flight Path		Norm Foster	West Coast Premiere
Private Lives		Noel Coward
Baby		Sybille Pearson, David Shire, Richard Maltby Jr.	Bay Area Critic's Circle Nomination
String Fever		Jacquelyn Reingold	West Coast Premiere
Art		Yasmina Reza
Force of Nature		Steven Dietz	California Premiere, Bay Area Critic's Circle Nomination
The Last Five Years		Jason Robert Brown	Northern CA Premiere
Smoke and Mirrors		Wm. Osborn and Anthony Herrera
Taking Sides		Ronald Harwood
The Love List		Norm Foster	US Premiere
Proof		David Auburn
The Boy Friend		Sandy Wilson	2 Bay Area Critic's Circle Awards
Only Kidding		Jim Geoghan	Northern CA Premiere
Nightfall		Joanna Murray-Smith	West Coast Premiere, Bay Area Critic's Circle Nomination
How the Other Half Loves		Alan Ayckbourn
Sight Unseen		Donald Marguiles
Whispers on the Wind		John Kuntz and Lor Crane	West Coast Premiere, Bay Area Critic's Circle Award
Private Eyes		Steven Dietz
Visiting Mr. Green		Jeff Baron
Jupiter in July		Norm Foster	Bay Area Premiere
Honour		Jonanna Murray-Smith	Bay Area Critic's Circle Nomination
Starting Here Starting Now		Richard Maltby & David Shire
Festival of Shorts		Multiple Authors
After the Fall		Arthur Miller
It Had To Be You		Renee Taylor & Joseph Bologna
Light Sensitive		Jim Geoghan	Bay Area Critic's Circle Award
Side By Side By Sondheim		Stephan Sondheim
Nuts		Tom Topor
Wrong for Each Other		Norm Foster
Wait Until Dark		Frederick Knott
The Gin Game		D. L. Coburn
New Wrinkles		Morris Bobrow, Gerald Nachman & Rita Abrams	World Premiere
Nora		Ingmar Bergman
Taking Steps		Alan Ayckbourn
Horowitz and Mrs. Washington		Henry Denker
Crimes of the Heart		Beth Henley
A Grand Night for Singing		Rodgers & Hammerstien
Betrayal		Harold Pinter
Lovers and Other Strangers		Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna
The Rainmaker		N. Richard Nash
The Goodbye People		Herb Gardner
Party of One		Morris Bobrow
The World Goes ‘Round		John Kander & Fred Ebb	9 Drama Logue Awards
Last of the Red Hot Lovers		Neil Simon
The Glass Menagerie		Tennessee Williams
The Cocktail Hour		A. R. Gurney
The Fantasticks		Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
Hold Me		Jules Feiffer
Picnic		William Inge
Same Time Next Year		Bernard Slade
Other Directing/Choreographing Bay Area and National Stages
Hats		Anthony Dodge & Marcia Milgrom Dodge	Willows Theatre
Chicago		John Kander & Fred Ebb	Peninsula Center Stage
Little Me		Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh	Willows Theatre
The Heidi Chronicles		Wendy Wasserstein	California Conservatory Th
On Borrowed Time		Paul Osborn	California Conservatory Th
Cinderella		Rodgers and Hammerstein	Willows Theatre
Gypsy		Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim	Columbia Actors' Repertory
The Cocktail Hour		A. R. Gurney	California Conservatory Th
Camelot		Alan J. Lerner, Frederick Lowe	Pleasanton Playhouse
Barefoot in the Park		Neil Simon	California Conservatory Th
The Owl and the Pussycat		Bill Manhoff	California Conservatory Th
Carnival		Bob Merrill & Michael Stewart	Columbia Actors' Repertory
The Odd Couple		Neil Simon	City Lights Theatre Vallejo
The Boy Friend		Sandy Wilson	Town/Gown Theatre, Ala
Cabaround		Original Cabaret Revue	Hingham, Mass.

Lois Grandi is the Founder and Director of The Performing Arts Academy (later re-named The Playhouse West Academy). She has taught adults and teens: beginning, intermediate and advanced acting, on-camera commercials, scene study, audition coaching, and monologue classes for 24 years.

“I believe I am successful now due to the foundation I was given by Lois and The Academy. For all that and more, I thank Lois and all the teachers I had there”
Meredith Patterson (Broadway Actress starring in 42nd Street, White Christmas, on TV in All My Children, Boston Legal)

“Lois was my very first acting teacher. She gave me the tools and the foundation to be a confident and risky actress. My career has flourished since I came to LA and have to say I owe a lot of it to Lois and The Academy”
Bree Turner (Film and TV Actress featured in The Ugly Truth, Ghost Whisperer, Quarterlife, Held Up)

“I’ve studied at many prominent acting schools across the country and consider Lois Grandi to be among the finest instructors (if not simply the best) with whom I have studied. She helped me to reconnect with the essentials of acting and helped me grow professionally. She trains her students in the art of “doing” and works with them to develop honest and truthful behavior on stage or in front of the camera. This is professional instruction for serious students.”
James Sharpe (LA TV, Film and Stage Actor featured in Weeds, Hung, Dark Blue, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, West Wing, The Unit)

Lois Grandi studied acting in New York with the celebrated teachers, Sandford Meisner and Wynn Handman. Her teaching philosophy and methods are firmly based on the technique she learned from them.

Of her many vocal teachers, Keith Davis at his studio in New York was the most important.

Lois began her ballet training in Philadelphia at age 4, and by 13 became a prodigy of world renowned teacher/choreographer Antony Tudor. He founded the company Ballet Guild of Philadelphia, of which Lois became a solo dancer. She continued to study with him when she moved to New York at age 17. She trained on scholarship at The Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, of which Tudor was the director, and studied with many prominent teachers including Margaret Craske, Alfredo Corvino, Frederick Franklin, Aubrey Hitchens, Alexandria Danilova and Luigi, who is still teaching Jazz at the age of 83.