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When Stephanie was four years old, her baby sitter placed paintings on the piano and asked her to play what she saw.
This empowered her to call herself a composer as early as she could read and write, and she has been passionately and
prolifically making stuff with music and words ever since. Stephanie graduated with a degree in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she also studied composition with Dr. Alan Cohen. She participated in Adam Guettel? group lab class through Musical Theatre Works, and in 2006, she was selected as the youngest member of the New Dramatists' Guild's Composer/Librettist Studio led by Ben Krywosz and Roger Ames. In this studio, she and four other composers collaborated with some of New Dramatists' resident playwrights and explored how to defy traditional genre restrictions. Several of her music theater works have been performed in Chicago and New York. These include HOTEL SARAJEVO (Hot Ink Festival 2004 and Barbara Wolff Reading at CAP21) which she worked on and co-conceived with Marisa Michelson and also TULLY (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) in collaboration with Joshua William Gelb. TULLY (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) was workshopped at Theatre For the New City in December of 2006 and produced in the New York Musical Theater Festival in September of 2007. Stephanie's other works have been performed at Cafe Vivaldi and Don't Tell Mama, she contributed material for DREAMAKERS (with Brian D'Arcy James) at the Children's Aid Society, and while in Prague, she collaborated with the Czech gypsy/folk band Vibra Etherna. She is currently working as a composer in a more devised way with director Rachel Chavkin and also on THE APOSTLE PROJECT with Theater Mitu at New York Theater Workshop. As a music director, Stephanie has worked with Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Raw Impressions, Taylor Mac and Elizabeth Swados, just to name a few. The people who have most influenced and are continuing to influence her sensibility include Douglas Adams, Tori Amos, Iva Bittova, Neil Gaiman, Neutral Milk Hotel, Terry Gilliam, Joanna Newsom, Pearl Jam, Philip Pullman, Salman Rushdie, Carl Sagan, John Steinbeck and Stephen Sondheim. Stephanie is devoted to continuing to write music and words that are socially conscious and life-affirming. |