Avra Petrides

Avra Petrides About Avra Petrides Petrides is a native New Yorker. As a playwright, her work has been presented in New York at La Mama Experimental Theater Club, the Manhattan Theater Club, the WPA Theater, The New Dramatists and recorded on WBAI. She co-wrote and directed the cabaret production, Dietrich for the Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel, which won a MAC Award. And Ms. Petrides directed Tap Divas and the tap dance extravaganza Tap City with Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Brenda Bufalino and others, which played at the Doris Duke Theater in Times Square. As an actress, her many appearances include playing Honey, the young wife, in the original Broadway production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (in the matinee company, opposite Kate Reid and Shepperd Strudwick); starring as Leah with Joseph Wiseman and Luther Adler in the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) television adaptation of Ansky's The Dybbuk; and playing leading roles on US television networks. She is a member of the Actors Studio. As Artistic Director of The Bridge Stage of the Arts, Inc., a New York City based theater company, she has produced music theater festivals in the South of France with American musical-theater artists such as Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist and librettist of My Fair Lady, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, screenwriters and lyricists of Singin' In the Rain. In Lower Manhattan, The Bridge has presented Performance-Forums in which theater artists collaborate on productions with astrophysicists, philosophers, architects and others working in a variety of creative disciplines. More from Avra Petrides Search Recent Articles By Avra Petrides The Singer's Fountain of Youth: The Zhorella Method Arts and Entertainment: Music Instruction • Published: April 27, 2015 Ask Maria Zhorella what about her teaching differs from that of other vocal trainers and she is quick to answer, "Nothing. Many good teachers teach the same things." While watching her in action, however, it becomes clear that she is referring to the principles of good singing. What she has neglected to mention is her uncanny ability, with a few deft strokes, to bring those principles alive for those with whom she works.