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Stephanie is a dancer, actor and choreographer from the West of Ireland currently based in Dublin.

Stephanie holds a BA in Dance from the Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands and is a graduate of the full time programme in Screen-Acting at the Bow Street Academy in Smithfield.

Stephanie’s theatre work as a performer includes: The Raven/Een Requiem (Frascati Theatre), Slings and Arrows (Chrysalis Dance), The Reason I Jump (Evolve at the Mac Belfast), Windows in Progress (Protein Dance), British Museum Pop Up (Icon Dance), Soul of Fado and A Darker Shade of Fado (Nuno Silva), Blue Reimagined and Body Mosaic (Step Up 2013), Maria de Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House), Space for the Liberty Muse (Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival 2017), Girl Song (Emma Martin/United Fall), Ar Ais Aris, Birds of a Feather and Scothscéalta (Brú Theatre), The Red Shoes (Gate Theatre), Least Like the Other, Orfeo Ed Eurydice, Alice’s Adventures Underground, and William Tell (Irish National Opera), A Different Wolf, the Bystander, Crossing Skin (Junk Ensemble) and Francis Footwork (Coiscéim Dance Theatre), Tempesta by Deirdre Kinahan (Glass Mask Theatre 2023 and Cork Midsummer Festival 2024), A Streetcar Named Desire (Cathal Cleary/Smock Alley 2024) and Where We Bury the Bones (Dumbworld 2025).

Stephanie has been featured in music videos for Crash Ensemble, Rhiannon Giddens, Talos, Galia Arad, Join Me in the Pines, Junior Brother, Ye Vagabonds and Lilla Vargen. Stephanie has appeared in national campaigns for Dublin Airport Authority and Bank of Ireland and was the face of the Galway International Arts Festival in 2017 and 2018. 

As a teacher Stephanie teaches movement to actors in Bow Street; the Academy for Screen Acting, and has taught and choreographed on the BA for Contemporary Dance in University of Limerick.

Stephanie's own choreographic work has been performed at the Clonmel Junction Festival, Galway Culture Night and Cork Midsummer Festival. She has choreographed for Irish National Opera on Die Fledermaus and the Flying Dutchman and she was the movement director on Marc Atkinson’s A Misanthrope and Cathal Cleary’s production of a Streetcar named Desire. She is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Dance Ireland and Galway Dance Project. Stephanie made her opera directing debut in 2020 with Dust by Benedict Schlepper Connolly for Irish National Opera. Stephanie choreographed and performed in After Love, a dance duet based on the poetry of Dani Gill and directed by Laura Sheeran, which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival 2021. Stephanie is a 2021 Platform 31 Bursary Recipient.

The photo above was taken by Colm Hogan for the Galway International Arts Festival 2018. 

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