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Bennington, Vermont, 2018
.Stephanie was supposed to be called Erin, but her second cousin stole the name. (Thanks Erin!) They were born and raised in Wisconsin with a Great Lake to the east, an industrial city to the north, a metropolis to the south, and the countryside to the west. Maybe that's why they've always refused to be just one thing. For the past seven years they have located their artistic home in Boston, where they earned a Master of Fine Arts and learned to run (mainly after the train). Stephanie's lifelong passion for exchanging knowledge has led them on adventures across the globe. During the 2015-16 school year, Stephanie taught high school English in Angoulême, France, and explored more than 20 countries across Europe and North Africa. Stephanie is now a writing instructor at Grub Street, the largest nonprofit writing center in the country, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Carroll University. They also offer freelance writing consulting and coaching services, help run a theatre company, and in their spare time, run write-ins for Boston-based speculative writers and a writing group called Cellardoor Collective.
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A Very Professional Bio is down below. For now, here is an extensive but non-exhaustive list of interests. Please talk to Stephanie about any of these things: literature, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, Tolkien, theatre, absurdism, feminism, costumes and cosplay, queerness, surrealism, writing, travel, teaching, non-western and postcolonial narratives, anti-racism, nature, experimental writing, collaboration, sustainability, work-life balance, tarot, French, Spanish, Quenya, translation, intersectionality, history, painting, drawing, poetry, embroidery, cooking, baking, journaling, body positivity, Ireland, Irish diaspora, video editing, alphabetizing, color coding, list-making, goal-setting, the proper use of hyphens, fixing your resume, semicolons, em-dashes, miscellaneous organizing, running, yoga, dancing, Dungeons and Dragons, active listening, self care, cats.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico 2017
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Stephanie K Brownell is a multidisciplinary creator and educator holding an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Stephanie was a 2018 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar and is an alumn of residencies and fellowships nationwide including Ensemble Studio Theatre’s New York Theatre Intensives, the O’Neill’s Playwright Observers, Taleamor Park Residency, and Company One PlayLab. Her nonlinear exploration of gender roles, She Eats Apples, won the National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Excellence Award, was a runner up for UT WomenWorks, and has been developed and produced around the country. Most recently, her short play “A House of a Different Color” was produced as part of This Place/Displaced, a theatrical response to gentrification and housing inequity in Boston, and her full-length play Chop, a cooking show-style exploration of body image, health, and diet culture, was selected for showcase at the Boston Center for the Arts She Said Festival. |
Sewanee, Tennessee, 2018
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Grenoble, France, 2015
Fez, Morocco, 2016
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Stephanie is passionate about teaching adults and teens through both university programs and community education. She has seven years’ experience teaching English and writing—including a year teaching high school in Angoulême, France—and currently teaches at Grub Street, the nation’s largest nonprofit writing center. Stephanie’s creative work is magical, experimental, and intersectional. Her scholarly work focuses on discourses of oppression, resistance, and imagination in contemporary and speculative literature. Publications in fiction, poetry, and drama can be found through the Santa Ana River Review, Typishly Literary Journal, formercactus, and CW Publishing.
As a costume designer, Stephanie has collaborated with Company One, New Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, American Repertory Theater, The Story Theatre Chicago, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Flat Earth Theatre, among others. She's interested in the past and future of clothing, the fluidity of gendered performance, and collaborating on new work. Her artistic practice explores the body through a mix of painting and fiber arts. Stephanie has worked in nonprofit and arts administration since 2008, including four years at ArtBoston, where she was Manager of BosTix. She is currently the Managing Director of Artists’ Theater of Boston. |
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