Professional Seminars

Amy Stoller

Presenter

Amy Stoller guides actors in suiting words to actions, helping them fulfill the needs of productions on stage and screen, and in other recorded media. Her career includes dialect design and coaching for more than 40 productions at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theater Co.; multi-character solo shows written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, as well as other projects with Ms. Smith; multi-character solo shows by Lisa Ramirez, Jodi Long, and League member Karen Eterovich among others; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway, and many other productions in New York, London, and US regional theatre.

Amy is proud to have received the 2023 League of Professional Theatre

Women Ruth Morley Design Award for Outstanding Work in the Field of Theatrical Design. In addition to her membership in the League, she is an Officer of VASTA, the Founder of VASTA ArtsCore, and a member of LMDA, the Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Ludovica Villar-Hauser

Moderator

Ludovica Villar-Hauser is the Founder, Artistic Director and Executive Director of Parity Productions, where her directing credits include the world premieres of Charlie’s Waiting by 2017 Commission Winner Mêlisa Annis, Mirrors by 2018 Commission Winner AzurIntro to Dialect Event bios 2025-12-07e D. Osborne-Lee, Stop-Motion by 2018 Commission Winner Liz Kerin, and the award- winning She Calls Me Firefly by Teresa Lotz.

Ludovica has directed many critically acclaimed plays in the US and UK, including Final Analysis by Otho Eskin (Signature Theatre); The Countess by Gregory Murphy in New York (Lamb’s) and London’s West End (Criterion); Leaves of Glass by Phillip Ridley (Peter Jay Sharpe); As It Is in Heaven by Arlene Hutton (Cherry Lane); Laura Pedersen’s The Brightness of Heaven (Cherry Lane) and This Will All Be Yours (Barrow Group). The 2021 filmed stage production of Stop-Motion by Liz Kerin marked her motion picture directorial debut.

At the age of 23, with her production of O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night at The Arts Theatre, Ludovica became the youngest woman to simultaneously produce and direct in London’s West End. In the New York theatre industry, she was also one of the few women to own and operate her own theatre — The Greenwich Street Theatre — which she ran for 17 years. Ludovica served on the Board of the League of Professional Theatre Women from 2009–2018, and as League co-President from July 2022–July 2023. She is currently Producer of the League’s Oral History Project.

Tamra Pica

Digtial Producer

Tamra Pica is a veteran producer and production manager with over 35 years of experience spanning over 300 projects in theater, television, and digital media. Notable producing credits include the long-running Off-Broadway production of Frankenstein: The Musical and the feature film adaptation, as well as Swing, It Came From Beyond, and Lili Marlene.

In television, Tamra served as Development executive, Casting Director and most recently as Script Supervisor and Freelance Writer for Disney Jr’s Mira, Royal Detective(104 episodes), and in Post Production for the Netflix series Blood of Zeus.

Like everyone in March of 2020, Tamra pivoted to Zoom and found a new world that combined her theater and television experience in a new live digital format. Since then she’s produced over 150 digital events. She has served as Producer and Technical Director for Theater Resources Unlimited’s monthly Speed Date pitch panels and other digital programming, bringing her extensive production expertise to the online space. As a tech enthusiast she can be seen as a regular panelist on The Rundown Show with Office Hours Global and on the Zoom Test Kitchen interrogating the latest technology and Zoom features with a likeminded group of tech nerds. She’s become passionate about helping creatives navigate digital spaces by demystifying the tech so they can confidently show up as their most authentic selves. Her work bridges the gap between traditional theater and innovative digital platforms, creating engaging experiences for artists and audiences worldwide.