Inspiration Stage founder and Artistic Director Mandy Seymore Sensat previously founded Center Stage, home of nationally-acclaimed and internationally-traveled Slightly Off Center Players (SOCP). She was education director for Fort Bend (TX) and Ocala Civic (FL) theatres. Mandy trained with SW Jazz Ballet Company for 15 years and started directing/choreographing productions at age 21. She has choreographed, directed, produced and acted in over 200 productions, garnering AACT and ACTF awards for acting and choreography. She is an acclaimed workshop facilitator and founder of SOCP’s award-winning Rhapsody Dance Team and The Harlequin Players, thrice awarded Texas Nonprofit Theatres’ Backstage and Esprit de Corps awards.

About the Program
Inspiration Stage (iStage) is a thriving community theatre and performing arts studio located in Texas’ historic Sugar Land Auditorium. iStage offers a full season of eight youth and four adult high-production-value shows annually. iStage troupes frequently travel to perform and participate in competitive festivals and noncompetitive conferences including iTheatrics’ Junior Theatre Festival, Texas Nonprofit Theatres Annual TNT Youth Conference, and Texas Educational Theatre Association TheatreFest. In addition to its audition-only conservatory program (CITY), iStage offers private and group acting, dance, and musical theatre classes as well as a full summer of theatre camps.