Maura Stephens
Independent Journalist • Writer • Educator • Theater Artist
Not content to sit idly as our Earth burns and the guilty fiddle
Some Recent Productions and Performances
(Theater, Video, Film, Television)
Actor
The Final Word Marcia Dane
workshop and staged reading of
free speech play by George Sapio, dir.
Siouxsie Easter (cast and director, left)
In the Car with Blossom and Len
Fern Gold-Dumas
(concert reading, right)
dramedy by Joni Fritz, dir.
Susannah Berryman
Fault Lines Theresa
(world premiere, left)
dramedy by George Sapio, dir. Camilla Schade
Better Than Nothing/Second to None Martha
dark comedy by George Sapio, dir. George Sapio
Death and the Maiden Paulina
Ariel Dorfman’s human rights drama,
dir. Pete Rush
Cathleen ni Houlihan Cathleen
Irish drama by William Butler Yeats,
dir. Crystal Bray
Equus Dora Strang
Peter Shaffer’s classic psychological drama,
dir. Pete Rush
Gasping Sr. Coca, Weather Woman, Reporter
anticorporate satire by Ben Elton, dir. Sapio (right)
Monograms Hazel Hall (East Coast premiere,
below right) by Susan Mach, dir. Nadine Bernard
The Vagina Monologues Eve E, Dominatrix, Hair Lady
by Eve Ensler, dir. Holly Adams
TV shows and student films (Ithaca College, Cornell U)
Director
Fault Lines by George Sapio,
Costa Rica National Tour,
for the Little Theatre Group of Costa Rica, staged reading
by George Sapio,
for Bad Dog! Productions,
workshop and staged reading
Hobson's Choice and Hocking Murray by George Sapio,
for Bad Dog! Productions
Time, and Time Again by Natalie de Combray,
for Theatre Incognita
Turtle Beach by Aoise Stratford,
for Wolf’s Mouth Theatre Company
Putt-Putt by George Sapio
for Wolf’s Mouth Theatre Company
Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,
with the Center for Constitutional Rights;
codirector with Maggie Goldsmith (also Coproducer)
Assistant Director
Headstrong, George Sapio’s literary dark comedy, dir. Sapio
Coyote on a Fence, Bruce Graham’s death row drama, dir. Heather Forsythe
The White Rose, Lillian Garrett-Groag's anti-Nazi drama, dir. Heather Forsythe
Producer/Assistant Director/Stage Manager
Chapel of Love, satire on the radical religious right in U.S. government, by Joan Bokaer (world premiere)
Narrator
Award-winning three-part documentary series Riding the Pony, produced and directed by Marilyn Rowland Scores of public service announcements for human services and arts organizations
Theater Companies
Wolf's Mouth Theatre Company founding member
Bad Dog! Productions founding member
Icarus Theatre Company founding member
Ithaca Fringe Festival board member
