Armina LaManna began her career in the theatre at the age of six at the Young Adult Musical Theatre Academy in the former USSR, where she performed in Gluck’s Orpheus and Euridice, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Debussy’s The Nutcracker, among others. Since then she went on to study, perform and later teach in America and Russia. Armina is the Founding Artistic Director of Imagine Project - LA County's new and only Equity theatre dedicated entirely to programming for young audiences. Armina’s directing credits include: Fair for OC-Centric New Play Festival, A Woman of No Importance and Fast & Loose at Sacred Fools, The Maids at ETC, Who's Your Baghdaddy?, Red Light Winter and Pushkin at Boldinoat The Chance Theatre’s On the Radar Series, We Wait for Moving Arts‘ The Car Plays at Radar LA, The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Temple Theatres, Pushkin at Boldino at the Philly Fringe, A Lie of the Mind, together with The Zoo Story and Hello Out There at Temple Theatres, Little Armenia at The Fountain Theatre, along with An Ideal Husband, A Marriage Proposal, Silenced and Heart in the Ground in Los Angeles; also Three Simple Words for Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Other credits: P.L.A.Y., Middle Passage, Circumference of a Squirrel at the Mark Taper Forum’s New Work Festival. Stage managing credits include the InterAct Theatre (Phila), The Colony Theatre, The Fountain Theatre, Groundlings 30th Anniversary at the Henry Fonda Theatre, the Los Angeles Repertory Co., The Interact Theatre (Los Angeles), the Grove Theatre Center, the Great American Playwriting Series, and the Pasadena Shakespeare Co. Armina’s writing and translation/adaptation credits include The Tale of Turandot, Pushkin at Boldino, Gogol’s The Government Inspector for The Lantern Theatre, Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. She taught Dramatic Imagination, Creativity, and the Creative Spirit at Temple University prior to moving back to Los Angeles in 2009. Armina is a proud member of AEA, SDC, and DG. www.arminalamannna.com