About me
National ASPIRE Chair, Professor of Theatre at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, in Queens, NY. Mellon Foundation, CUNY Graduate Center and LaGuardia Humanities Alliance Scholar’s Coordinator. Stefanie directs new works, musicals and creates devised theatre pieces for social change. At LaGuardia, she has directed, “Spring Awakening”, “Electra”, “Passing Strange” (KCACTF Invited Production, Region 1), “In The Heights”, “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” (KCACTF Invited Production, Region 1) and “The Shape of Things”. OFF Broadway directing credits include the world premiere of Eduardo Machado’s Havana Journal, 2004(INTAR Theatre), Heathens by Heather Hill (Theatre for the New City), Daughters of the Sexual Revolution by Dana Leslie Goldstein (Workshop Theatre) Off the Kings Road by Neil Koenigsberg (Theatre for the New City) Museum Pieces by Laura Marks (Prospect Theatre) and Like you Like It by Sammy Buck (Broadway Workshop) along with several readings. BA Acting (Western Michigan University) MFA Directing (University of Portland). Stefanie is a PSC CUNY Research Foundation Grant winner for her documentary, “Immigrant Artists”, a two time, Salute to Scholars Nominee, CUNY and she won the Innovative Teaching Award from KCACTF and ATHE.
