GENNI KLEIN (Director/Acting/Dialect Coach) taught Theatre Arts at Fullerton Academy of the Arts at Fullerton Union High School. She is now on the Foundation Board for the Academy of the Arts. She is a graduate of South Coast Repertory’s Professional Acting Conservatory. She is a member of the SAG-AFTRA, and Actors Equity Association. She was also a member of ACTER International, and through them has studied with The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre Company in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Ms. Klein has performed as a voicing actor with the National Theatre of the Deaf, and in both classical and contemporary roles at various theatres in Los Angeles and Orange Counties; she has performed with The Shakespeare School in Stratford-upon-Avon and at Broughton Castle. She has also taught at the Institute of Renaissance Studies in Ashland, Oregon, and has been a National Trainer for Project IMPACT, an International Critical Thinking Model, endorsed by the National Diffusion Network and Phi Delta Kappa. Ms. Klein believes that, “teaching theatre to young people allows them to engage all of themselves in something, quite wonderful, sometimes ineffable; they discover that they are indeed richly blessed, uniquely talented, capable of great depth of feeling and tremendous joy and power. There is immense pleasure in watching young, fresh artists take wing and fly on their own. It frees them, and empowers them, and that is truly breathtaking.”
