We are honored and excited that Stefanie Powers is opening our 2013-14 Season of Rhythms of LIFE with Sister Mozart.

STEFANIE POWERS began her career at age 15, dancing for famed Broadway choreographer, Jerome Robbins.  She was put under contract to Columbia Pictures in the final years of the Hollywood star system.  While under contract, she appeared in 15 of the 31 motion pictures she has made, co-starring with screen legends such as John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Cliff Robertson, Elliot Gould, Roger Moore, Donald Sutherland, BingCrosby, Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, James Caan, and Sammy Davis.   She recently co-starred with Richard Chamberlin in the critically acclaimed independent film, Three Days of Hamlet.

Throughout her career she has never neglected her theatrical roots, appearing in productions of; How the other Half Loves, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Sabrina Faire, View from the Bridge, Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, the West End debut of Matador, off-Broadway in The Vagina Monologues, back to the West End with Robert Wagner in Love Letters, which they also toured the United States with, becoming the cast most associated with the play after over 500 performances. She most recently starred as Tallulah Bankhead in the national tour of Looped.

She is a devoted friend of animals and has been on the advisory board of four zoos in the United States and is a fellow of the Los Angeles Zoo, the Explorers’ Club, and the Royal Geographic Society.  She is active in the movement to preserve and protect the remaining herds of the North American wild horses.

Ms. Powers has received numerous international awards for her grass roots work in conservation which she considers a life-long commitment.  She resides part of the year in Kenya.