Alyssa Anderson

Alyssa Anderson co-founded her first youth theatre group at age 15.  By the fourth year, she and her partner were mentoring a teaching team of 12 teen instructors for a summer program serving over 80 students. Alyssa then joined the technical theatre staff at French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts and later spent several years as Drama Director at Camp Wayne for Girls, directing 4-5 shows each season.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre (acting emphasis) from UCSD, where she was Governor of the Warren Theatre Guild and the director and editor of an episodic TV series on campus. Alyssa completed her Master of Arts in Dramatic Literature at UCSB, where she directed or served as dramaturg for a number of Mainstage productions, acted, directed, and served as production coordinator for a variety of shows in the Studio Theatre, and taught classes in acting, theatre history, and script coverage. She also completed the Summer Training Congress at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In K-12 education, Alyssa holds a high school teaching credential in theatre, math, and physics, and spent three years introducing kids to Shakespeare as an ArtsBridge Scholar. While Alyssa now spends most of her theatrical time on the directing side of the stage, some of her favorite past roles include Luisa in The Fantasticks (twice!), Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore, Liesl in The Sound of Music, and Christine in The Bad Seed.