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Fiction. Poetry. Drama.

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Stephanie holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Her original plays have been produced and developed across the US. Collaborators include Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Company One Theatre, Elements Theatre Company, KNOW Theatre, Artists' Theatre of Boston, Cellardoor Collective, and more. Stephanie has received multiple awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, including the 2015 National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Excellence Award. She is a member of Company One's 2017 PlayLab, a Core Member of Artists' Theatre of Boston and a 2018 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference.

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Playwright, Director, and Cast of 'She Eats Apples' 2014
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Company One's 2017 Play Lab


Fiction & Poetry

"Genus Antigone"
Newfound, 2022

“Dead, Deer”
Speculative North, 2021


“a forest grew”
Button Eye, 2021


"The Body House," “claw,” & “Forest Conscription”
Coffin Bell, 2021

“Plans,” “Second Spine,” & “How to Navigate in Three Directions”
Cathexis Northwest, 2020


"Your Head is Older than Your Feet"
Solstice Magazine (Editor's Choice), 2020

"Amerika"
Great Lakes Review, 2020

"Greyling & Lamprey"
Decoded Anthology, 2020

"Lehrerin"
Punt Volat, 2020

"April" & "Tidal"
Seven CirclePress, 2020

"Lacuna"
Crab Fat Magazine, 2020
          Read Online Here

"Territory"
Cracked the Spine, Anthology, 2019
          Available for Purchase at Amazon

"Diese Nacht"
formercactus, 2018
          Read Online Here

"wake"
Typishly Literary Journal, 2018
          Read Online Here

"Sarita"
Typishly Literary Journal (Editor's Choice), 2018
          Read Online Here
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Stephanie reads "Second Spine or Humuhumunukunukuapua'a," October 2016
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Stephanie reads "Lehrerin" at Sewanee Writers Conference, July 2018.

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'She Eats Apples' workshop at Boston University 2014

Full-Length Plays

SHE EATS APPLES
a nonlinear drama, 5w 1m.
Winner, 2015 National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Excellence Award
Runner-Up, WomenWorks 2015
Educational Production, Queensboro Community College, December 2017, Directed by J. Julian Christopher
Selected Readings, Carthage College, 2015
Workshop Production, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston University, October 2014, Directed by Adrienne Boris
Abridged Educational Production, Breaking Barriers at Strath Haven High School, 2014
          Production Photos and Script Samples
          An Interview with the Playwright

CHOP
a one-woman live cooking show, 1w. 1 m/nb.
Staged Reading, She Said Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, 2019
Staged Reading, Dorchester Art Project, 2018
Staged Reading, Boston Playwrights' Theatre Ground Floor Series 2013
​Workshop and reading, Boston University, 2013​

THIS PLACE/DISPLACED
a collaborative protest play, 4w 2m 1nb. 
          with: Kirsten Greenidge, David Valdes, MJ Halberstadt, Jaymes Sanches, Livian Yeh, Manuel Lopez.
Remount Production, Artists Theater of Boston, 2019 - sold out run.
Production, Artists Theater of Boston, 2018 - sold out run.
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MEDIA:
Arts Fuse Best Stage Productions of 2018:This Place/Displaced "pointedly (and at times amusingly) critiqued Boston area gentrification and displacement." - Bill Marx

Dig Boston Spotlight: "This Place/Displaced is a documentary-minded show shining a spotlight on displacement, gentrification, and housing inequality in Greater Boston. Combining theater, prose, and verse with music, the writers, cast, and crew tell stories about space and place for those whose voices have been lost as they relocate to the farthest reaches of the T and beyond." - Dennis Maler
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Arts Fuse Coming Attractions Feature: "What is distinctive that this production is that it is truly rooted our community. (Not an outing for one of the regional theater industry’s ‘flavor of the month’ scripts.)" - Bill Marx
BRIGIDS
a feminine trinity myth
​, 3w.
Workshop with Dan O'Brien, Sewanee Writer's Conference. July 2017
Reading, Cellardoor Collective, June 2017
Workshop with Kirsten Greenidge, Company One PlayLab, January 2017

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ANN... 
a reintroduction to Antigone, 7w 3m.
Workshop Production, Carroll University, April 2012.
       Production Photos and Script Sample

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The Playwright at the Opening of 'Ann...' 2012
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The Playwright with the Cast of 'Ann...' 2012

Short Plays

ESKIMO PIE
a poem-play
, 2w 1m.
Published in Santa Ana River Review, Volume 4, Issue 2
​National Finalist, KCACTF 2014 Gary Garrison Award
Winner, KCACTF Region 1 Playwriting Award 2014
Produced by the KNOW Theatre Company 2014
Produced by Elements Theatre Company, Boston Theatre Marathon 2014
Writers at the Black Box Reading Series 2013
          Production Photos and Script Sample


A HOUSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
a documentary theatre piece on gentrification
, 2w, 2m, 3 any.
Produced by Artists' Theater of Boston as part of This Place/Displaced, 2018.
Commissioned by Artists' Theater of Boston.

MID-AFTERNOON TORTURE CHAMBER
sisterly bondage--I mean, bonding
, 2w.
Writers at the Black Box Reading Series, 2014
​Workshop and reading, Boston University, 2013
​Workshop and reading, Carroll University, 2012

AFTER A MAN,
a comic book come to life
, 1w, 1m, 2-3 variable.
Published in NYTI 2014 Anthology
​Workshop and reading, New York Theatre Intensives, 2014

RECOMBOBULATION AREA
an airport breakdown
, 2w.
​Workshop and reading, Boston University, 2014
​Workshop and reading, New York Theatre Intensives, 2014

ORIGINAL JOYSTICKS
a geek comedy
, 1w 1m.

Produced by ShotzBoston, 2015

TRUMP CARD
a feminist apocalypse
, 2w.
Produced by ShotzBoston, 2017

HOT LUNCH
a father-son drama,
2m.
​Workshop and reading, Boston University, 2013


LAKE PLAY
a mother-daughter drama
, 3w.

Produced by Carroll University Festival of New Works, 2012

TOLLS
a sisterly drama
, 2w.
Produced by ShotzBoston, 2015

FLYING LEAP
a family comedy
, 2w 1m.
​Workshop and reading, Boston University, 2013
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Rachel and Adam in 'Eskimo Pie' at KCACTF Region 1 Festival 2014
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Rena in 'Eskimo Pie' at KCACFT Region 1 Festival 2014
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Adam and Rena in 'Eskimo Pie' at KCACTF Region 1 2014
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'after a MAN' at Theatre Lab 2014

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Process Photo from 'She Eats Apples' rehearsal 2014
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Cassie M. Seinuk, Nick Carr, Abbey Fenbert, and Stephanie K. Brownell accepting awards at the 2014 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Essays​

Hope and Hopelessness in Speculative Fiction
Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, 2019

Making Space: World-Building and the Ethics of the Imaginary
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, 2018

Quest Narrative in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, 2017

"out of Far Harad": Myth and "Mirror" in the Lord of the Rings and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
46th Annual Mythopoeic Conference 2015

Twelve Fingers: The Subjectification of Haitian Women in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
Purdue University Calumet, 2012

Same Difference: Homophobia and Heterosexism in Anti-Homosexual Discourse
Purdue University Calumet, 2011
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