Her Story
25 years of putting young artists on stage
Erin Lautsch is an NYU-trained theater director with more than 25 years in the performing arts. She has served as a director at Palo Alto Children's Theater, Artistic & Music Director at La Cañada Children's Theatre in Los Angeles, and Writer and Director for a UNICEF Performing Arts Initiative in South Korea — alongside a career of international performing and directing.
Today she lives on the San Mateo Peninsula, where her own two children are growing up in the same school communities Elevate serves. That's not incidental — it's the whole point. These are our families. Elevate Arts Conservatory was born from the belief that Peninsula kids deserve real conservatory training in their own neighborhood: not just a fun hour after school (though it is), but technique, repertoire, and stage experience taught to a professional standard, by someone who has spent a career doing exactly this.
Erin also maintains a full roster of private voice and audition students, co-chairs her kids' school's talent show, and is developing Own the Audition, an online course for young performers worldwide, regardless of where they live.
Erin Lautsch — Founder & Program Director
