Recognition
The credentials behind the work.
Storybook is led by Sara Bernstein, its founder and Artistic Director. She holds a Bachelor of Music in musical production and direction from Northwestern University. She has directed musicals across the Phoenix metropolitan area for over a decade, and served five years as Education Manager for the Arizona Theatre Company.
Her direction has been recognized with multiple Arizoni Awards, including her work on Les Misérables and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. She is also still a working stage actor, and still studies voice with the resident music director at the largest professional theater in Phoenix.
That background is why Storybook calls itself a production house. A director decides who is right for a role, what a scene needs, and when it has run long enough, and a celebration takes the same judgment calls.
Sara is glad to talk about how a character is cast and rehearsed, and about what she sees changing in the market: parents increasingly want activities their children will remember rather than decorations that photograph well.
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