Welcome to Foolish Voices! I’m Scott Palmer, Producing Artistic Director of Company of Fools, and on this show we talk to a wide range of theatre artists, both here in Sun Valley and all across the world, about how the current global health crisis is impacting their work, about their creative lives, and about their hopes for the future of our art form. Please consider supporting Company of Fools by making a donation, in any amount, via our podcast platform or online at svmoa.org.
In this episode, we are talking with the one, the only, the living legend, Jana Arnold!
Jana Arnold graduated with a degree in theater from Baylor University and went from there to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. It is in small Equity Waiver theaters that she “cut her teeth” on stage and where she earned two Los Angeles DramaLogue Awards for excellence in theater.
Jana has over 40 guest starring roles in film and TV, but the roller coaster life of an actor in L.A. was hard. She had an opportunity to go to the Sun Valley area of Idaho to do a play. 15 years and over 40 productions later, she is still there and has worked non-stop ever since with several regional production companies including nexStage Theater, Laughing Stock, Off Center Stage, St. Thomas Playhouse, The Spot, Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, and Company of Fools, where she is a resident actor.
Jana has had the opportunity to perform in roles most actors only dream about, Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Vera in 5000 Miles, and Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens to mention only a few.
