Lucy Bush

Teacher extraordinaire, Lucy hails from Northern Michigan. She attended Traverse City High School and Northwestern Michigan College. Her career as an actress began at the Ramsdell Opera House in Manistee where, as a child she became an ingénue and starred with Agnes Moorhead as the youngest daughter, Dagmar, in "I Remember Mama". There she worked summer stock until her family moved to Traverse City and she became involved with the Cherry County Playhouse and played in such productions as "The Grapes of Wrath with John Caradine. Years later she starred with Artie Johnson in "Blithe Spirit" and several other productions. As a youngster,with five dollars in her pocket and a dream in her head of becoming an Actress, she boarded the Grey Hound Bus and headed for Hollywood. Getting off on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine she soon landed at the famed Actor's Studio as well her first television show called "It Takes a Thief" with Robert Wagner and Joseph Cotton. She promptly joined Screen Actors Guild and got an agent. At the Actor's Studio she worked and studied with many famous actors such as John Voit, Burgess Meredith, Ray Walston, Sally Kirkland, Shelly Winters and many others. For the past twenty five years she has worked with the best of the best in the acting world and has performed, directed, and produced several successful Films and Stage plays. Teaching privately at her own theatre and at the American Film Institute has been her way of giving back and helping young actors on their way to realize their own dreams. Her accomplishments have included many talents on both sides of the camera. Many credits due her are those of a Script Supervisor, Make-up and Hair Stylist, Dialogue Coach, and Editor as well as several films, television and talk shows. In conjunction with her Acting career, where she appeared in several Stage productions, films, television and Talk Shows, she also produced and directed segments for such venues as "Eye on L.A, and several others. Her travels have stretched around the world .taking her to Japan where she studied Kabuki and Noh Theatre. While abroad, she taught Comedy Improvisation and English. Again touring and performing, Lucy lived in Paris, France where she studied Pantomime with the acclaimed Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux ( Les Enfants du Paradis). While in Paris, she received a Scholarship at the Cite Universitaire where she spent time teaching Corporal Movement, Performance Technique and Drama and working in French Cinema, working with several well known directors such as Andreas Voutcintas and Shortly after returning to Hollywood, she founded and began her own Experimental theatre called "The Electric Ecclectic Workshop" This theatre group embraced a unique group of people. Many who had come to a turning point in their lives and needed to realize their own creative God given talents. The group consisted of drug addicts, ex-cons and others who "just didn't feel they belonged anywhere".