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Post University Announces Grammy Award-Winning Commencement Speaker
Post University Announces Grammy Award-Winning Nicole Zuraitis as 2024 Commencement Speaker
Nancy Sasso Janis was a kindergarten and first grade teacher in Naugatuck for 37 years. She grew up in Stratford and has lived in Naugatuck since the early eighties.
Nancy has long been a patron of the arts. She can often be seen singing in various churches and occasionally on TV on the daily Celebration of the Eucharistic on WCCT-TV. She got a lead harmony vocals and creation credit on a CD recorded by singer/songwriter Robert Jones entitled 'Above Here.'
She also frequents local theaters for a wide variety of productions. Nancy secured her first acting credit when she appeared in the 2006 Maple Hill production of "Schoolhouse Rock Live, Jr." under the direction of Dave Gardino. She played the lead role of a brand new teacher renamed Pearl Morton and performed the final song "Interjections." More recent credits include Martha in the Phoenix Stage Company production of "The Last Supper: A Musical Enactment" in March 2012 and Maria and Meg in "Bad Auditions by Bad Actors" in the PSC-produced reader's theatre at the Whittemore Library (May 2012.) She has appeared as Harriet Beecher Stowe and herself on the old-time radio program "Nutmeg Junction" on WAPJ in Torrington and other stations.
Recent credits include the role of Marty in The Golden Year's Theatre Company's 2023 production of "Grease" and a featured member of the ensemble for Newbury Musical Theatre Company's production of "Fiddler on the Roof." She recently played Blue Fairy in the Seven Angels Children's Theatre production of "Pinocchio" under the direction of Scott Kealey.
Nancy is the author of a musical for children entitled 'Lessons in Mother Goose' that she hopes to produce in the future.
She is the membership chair of the Connecticut Critics Circle, an organization that reviews Equity productions. Nancy has been working as a feature writer and theater reviewer for Waterbury's Republican-American newspaper for two years. Her weekly column "In the Wings" appears in the Thursday Weekend section of the paper.
Nancy continues to contribute theater news to local Patch sites. Follow her new Facebook page Nancy Sasso Janis: Theatre Reviewer and on Twitter @nancysjanis417.
Post University Announces Grammy Award-Winning Nicole Zuraitis as 2024 Commencement Speaker
WCSU has announced the 2024 Henry Barnard Distinguished Student Award recipients.
Performances at Lyman Hall are Apr. 25-27 at 7 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 1 p.m.
Connecticut Critics Circle member Nancy Sasso Janis laughed her way through this performance of an ambitious and hysterical play.
This delightful show is a one-of-a-kind production, based on an unfinished Charles Dickens’ mystery. It runs through June 2.
Swinging into Spring with an All-Female Big Band on a Journey to the ‘40s! Up Next at Ivoryton Playhouse: ‘Swingtime Canteen’
Atlantic Theater Company Announces Complete Casting for THE WELKIN
"Romeo and Juliet" June 12-30, 2024 in Pinkney Park, Rowayton, CT.
As part of Give Local Shakesperience Productions will be hosting all events for FREE and will be held IN PERSON!
She will provide support to all creative, technical and educational staff on current programming, help develop ideas for future programming.
Quinnipiac University to host photography exhibit, ‘Ukraine: War and Resistance,’ from April 8-June 15
Quinnipiac University’s Alec Williams named ‘PA Student of the Year’by the Connecticut Academy of Physician Associates
A 36-hour whirlwind of Shakespeare!
The first 150 attendees will receive an HSI T-shirt and everyone who attends will be entered in a raffle for some WCSU Swag.
WCSU addresses FAFSA delays for incoming students, extends commitment deadline to June 1
O. John Maduko Inaugurated as First President of CT State Community College: A Milestone for Connecticut Higher Education
Legendary Guitarist Andy Summers Theatre Tour The Cracked Lens + A Missing String
SEVEN ANGELS THEATRE BRINGS THE CONNECTICUT PREMIERE OF A BRONX TALE-THE MUSICAL TO WATERBURY APRIL 26-MAY 19.
The Whittemore Library will present this on Apr. 24.
Playhouse on Park’s 15th Main Stage Season Continues with the Connecticut Premiere of TONI STONE