Female

Kay Kostopoulos teaches undergraduate acting, audition, vocal production, acting pedagogy for graduate students, and advisor/coach for Stanford Shakespeare. Kay is an actor and director who coaches theatre and business professionals. Her credits include A.C.T., San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and California Shakespeare Festival, where she also served as Education Director. Kay also performs as “Black Olive Jazz” with some of the finest classical and jazz musicians around the Bay. www.blackolivejazz.com.

Kay has taught over 40 Continuing Studies Classes, directed and acted in three CSP projects, including celebrations of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Saroyan and Charles Darwin; and coached and performed voices in CSP’s Homer’s Odyssey on- line project. She has also acted in four seasons of Stanford Summer Theatre, performing in The Firebugs, The Lover, Lysistrata, and Amy Freed’s Restoration Comedy. Kay is the co-creator and director of the Stanford Interactive Theatre Project in association with the School of Medicine, and teaches “Acting with Power” in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Kay particularly enjoys nurturing new talent and and promoting adult students in the acting world. She auditions incoming freshmen, and serves as advisor and coach for seniors, assisting them in their transition to the professional world.

Black Olive Jazz features classic songs from the Golden Age of the American Songbook with a vocal jazz repertoire from the enduring masters of the art form-- including Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Count Basi; --and songwriters from Europe and Latin America--Consuelo Velaquez, A.C. Jobim, and many more. Vocalist Kay Andreas brings these two traditions together with an all star ensemble of San Francisco legends. Performing in duo, trio, ensemble or Big Band.