Stephanie is a playwright, director, educator, and acting coach based in Los Angeles.
She is the Theatre Department Chair at Wildwood School, a progressive, private school in west Los Angeles, where she has spent over two decades building theater programming from the ground up, teaching acting, directing countless musicals and plays, and devising unique educational events and workshops.
Stephanie’s debut play, Threshold, is a winner of the 2026 Ashland New Plays Festival and a Semifinalist at the Seven Devils New Play Festival.
Her adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s comic masterpiece, The Government Inspector, is currently available for licensing.
Learn more about Stephanie’s plays HERE at New Play Exchange (NPX).
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. in Acting, American Conservatory Theater
B.F.A. in Theatre, The University of Michigan
PRODUCER OF UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES
READINGS:
Stephanie produced a reading at her school of Richard III starring Al Pacino, Lily Rabe, and Hamish Linklater, in collaboration with Shakespeare Center LA.
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Stephanie coordinated with the USC Shoah Foundation to bring in Holocaust survivor Paula Lebovics to speak with her students, in conjunction with Stephanie’s direction of The Sound of Music.
WORKSHOP LEADER:
Stephanie leads workshops on:
Equitable casting practices
Theater pedagogy for social-emotional learning and DEIB
The laws and community pressures restricting whose stories reach the stage
