Stephanie is an international theatrical director working in a wide range of genres, styles and theatrical theories. She specialises in Shakespeare, devised works, and new play writing. She is the Artistic Director of Fortune's Fool Productions in Dublin, Ireland, and continues to direct in the US. Her directing credits include: As You Like It for The Southern California Shakespeare Festival 2016; Measure for Measure - Ireland 1916 for Fortune's Fool Productions 2016 - Measure for Measure - Ireland 1916 was included in the world wide Shakespeare Lives Initiative, Sponsored by the GREAT campaign & The British Council; A Silence for Frau Schirakesch & A Little Calm Before the Storm English Premier Staged Readings of Theresia Walser for The Goethe Institute.
While directing is Stephanie's main focus, occasionally she enjoys storytelling from a different perspective. Stephanie was most recently seen in the Irish premier of Jonna Adam's Gideon's Knot:
"Stephanie Courtney exhibit[s] a particularly impressive performance as forlorn mother, Corryn Fell. Such engrossing performances are rare so be sure to see this one in its current run."
Ben Allen, LeCool 2015
Stephanie is also an international theatre instructor. Most recently teaching Movement for Actors and Theatre History at The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland, she teaches an annual Master Class in Viewpoints & Suzuki at the Pacific Conservatory on California's Central Coast and has conducted workshops in Greece, Italy, Ireland and the US.
Stephanie spends almost all of her spare time writing. One of her first scripts, The Game of Chess, has been produced at a handful of theatre festivals for plays under 10 minutes long. She has performed her own adaptation of Sylvia Plath's lifes works entitled, Lost Edens in the US and Ireland. If you have the stomach for it, you can read her blog, Drowning in the Kitchen Sink (it's a bit dark) and you can read her favorite self penned short story, The Culmination, which was illustrated by Rob Dario at http://stephaniecourtney.ie/wp/the-culmination/.
Projects
Skills
- Ability to Produce Exciting and Concise Pieces of Writing
- Film/tv/theatre Production
- Google Adwords Certified
- Analysing Data
- Theatre Director
- Script and Storyboard
Education
Master OF Fine Arts Film Directing
- United States
MFA, Directing Trinity Repertory Conservatory (Providence, Rhode Island) Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director
1st Year of a Bachelor’s Degree in History
- Long Beach, United States
BA, Cum Lauda California State University, Long Beach
Awards
Shakespeare Lives
Measure for Measure - Ireland 1916 included in The Shakespeare Lives Initiative, Sponsored by the GREAT campaign & The British Council 2016Best of the Decade by the Berkeley Daily Planet
Awarded for a decades worth of theatre produced by Wilde Irish Productions under my Artistic Directorship in the San Francisco Bay Area.+ Show more