EDUCATION:
M.F.A. in Acting, American Conservatory Theater
B.F.A. in Theatre, The University of Michigan
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 currently a Finalist at a prestigious new plays festival (TBA) and a Semifinalist at the Seven Devils New Play Festival.
Her adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s comic masterpiece, The Government Inspector, will be premiering in June at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Los Angeles, produced by Wildwood School’s Summer Theater. Another production of her adaptation is slated at a high school in Boston in November of 2026.
Learn more about Stephanie’s plays HERE at New Play Exchange (NPX).
Stephanie also creates unique programming, readings, and workshops that bring students in direct contact with artists, survivors, and stories.
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
