LFJCC Mandelbaum Lecture Series: Todd Salovey on Acting and Prayer

A Shakespearean actor must speak an ancient text as if it’s their own, find emotion and personal connection with someone else’s words, and if they are in a hit show, say the same text again and again as if it’s the first time. Todd Salovey demonstrates how acting techniques can be the basis for more soulful, meaningful, and purposeful prayer.

Salovey teaches acting in the UCSD undergraduate theatre program, as well as teaching Introduction to Theatre, graduate-level directing, and supervising many graduate student instructors. He is in his 25th season as San Diego Repertory Theatre's Associate Artistic Director.

At UCSD, he has directed Six Characters in Search of an Author and Stage Door. As the Founding Artistic Director of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, he has commissioned and developed numerous new pieces of music, theatre, and dance that have premiered in San Diego and gone on to be performed throughout the world.