Navida Stein (Gretchen Van Tassel)

Navida Stein has worked Off-Broadway in Carbondale Dreams and regionally in shows as varied as CATS at Sacramento Music Circus to Romeo & Juliet at Orlando Shakespeare to fiddling her heart out in Cowgirls. Recently, she played Mrs. Pearce and the violin onstage in My Fair Lady at Actors Theater of Louisville and Cleveland Playhouse.

She’s been seen on Law & Order and spots for Nickelodeon. As a professional storyteller, Navida’s one-woman show of multi-cultural stories with original music frequently tours the NYC Metropolitan area. She graduated from Webber Douglas Drama School in London and has studied intensively with Shakespeare & Company. She’s a theater and playwriting artist-in-residence in the NYC schools.