Peitho (the ancient Greek goddess of persuasion and speech) is the pen name of the Founder and Director of the Manhattan based PS4e1 (Public Speaking Training For Everyone—By Broadway Actors) Her theatrical background includes playing leading roles on Broadway, for instance in the original production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; starring on television in the United States, Canada and Britain, for example as Leah in “The Dybbuk” opposite Luther Adler and Joseph Wiseman; producing American musical theater festivals in the South of France, featuring such artists as librettists Alan Jay Lerner (“My Fair Lady”) and Comden and Green (“Singin’ In the Rain”); and writing a series of plays presented in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club, La Mama and the WPA. She is also a member of the Actors Studio.