San Diego directing credits include A Behanding in Spokane (Cygnet Theatre), The Car Plays: We Wait, The Whale (LaJolla Playhouse) Buried Child, Simpatico, Things We Want (New Village Arts), Killer Joe (Compass Theatre)(Patte Award), The House of Blue Leaves (Mira Costa College), Miss Julie and The Corpse Bride (Stone Soup), ANON(ymous) and Crimes of the Heart (Canyon Crest Academy) Buried Child (UCSD) The Long Christmas Ride Home (Patte Award) and Looking for Normal (Diversionary Theatre), Handbag (AASD) The Pirates of Penzance (Lyric Opera Academy), and Islands of Repair (NYC Fringe). Additional directing credits include Grease, Our Town, The Boys Next Door, Picnic, Laughing Wild and several children’s musical for the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Creating Original Opera program. She co-wrote and performed in Rita and Inez: The True Queens of Femininity which toured to several venues including the Edmonton Fringe Festival, Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival and Surf Reality and HERE in NYC. In addition, Lisa has taught for various arts organizations and universities/colleges including La Jolla Playhouse. Walt Disney Productions: The Lion King, Theatre for a New Audience,Arts Genesis, UCSD, Grossmont College, Palomar College and Cal State San Marcos. She currently teaches at Mira Costa College, City College, University of San Diego and a Meisner Acting Technique class with New Village Arts.

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Ms. Glaser is a stage director of plays and operas, as well as a playwright, translator, and acting teacher. She has worked both in academia and the professional theatre for over 20 years. She has taught at UCSD, USC, CalArts, Earlham College, the Michael Chekhov Studio-USA West, Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, the Fritz Theatre, the Actors Alliance of San Diego, the Classical Singers Association of Los Angeles, the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia Conservatory, and the Old Globe Theatre.  Ms. Glaser has served as stage director for over 40 professional and university productions across the country, including the plays The Government Inspector, The Bungler, The Comedy of Errors, Three Sisters, The Heidi Chronicles, Trouble in Mind, Stepbrothers in Crime, A Flea in Her Ear, and Hotel Paradiso; and the operas La Bohème, Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, La Périchole, L'Orfeo, Croquefer, The Italian Straw Hat, Dido and Aeneas, The Beggar's Opera, Orpheus in the Underworld,
and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Ms. Glaser also specializes in the application of acting techniques to the business world.  She founded Glaser Communication in Washington, DC, teaching communication and presentation skills to a variety of clients, including the American Management Association, the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital, the Bureau of the Census, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the Support Center of Washington. With her extensive training in whole-brain teaching techniques, she conducted training seminars for the Prince William County, VA, School System; the Oswego, NY, School System; and the Prince George's County, MD, Library System. She has also conducted seminars in courtroom-presentation techniques at the California Western School of Law. For USD's Center for Educational Excellence, she conducted a seminar in the hidden meanings in nonverbal communication.
Ms. Glaser has been an Education Outreach Consultant for the San Diego Opera, writing scripts and conducting programs for the Docent Training Program. She is a member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, where she sits on the review panel for the Visiting Artist/Scholar Fellowship Program.

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George is an associate artistic director of the Cygnet Theatre, resident artist at the Diversionary Theatre and has numerous directing, sound design, and fight director credits in San Diego and across the country in Film, Theatre and video. Directing credits include: USD Theatre, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, Sam I Am, Diviners; (Old Globe/USD MFA); Stuff Happens, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Happy Hour; Cygnet Theatre, Copenhagen; Our Town; San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre, Flipzoids, Woman From the Other Side of the World, Struggling Truths (Pâté Award for Theatre Excellence), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all for You, Oleanna, Cultivated Lives, . . .and then he met a woodcutter (San Diego Critics circle award), Professor Saturn’s Atomic Theatre, Do Over, Episode 36, Contact, Playwright’s Project, A+B≠ C, Elevated, Find you in the Forest, 6th@Penn, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Florida Atlantic University, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, The Elephant Man. He is an award winning sound designer often writing original music for designs, and has over a hundred design credits in theatre, film and video.

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