Stephanie Rolland is a director, curator and Lilly Award winning creative producer.  Her work is fueled by connection, experimentation, and laughter. She finds her joy in bringing  multi-faceted, swirling, human universes together in space to make magic. Select Experience below:

Curation and Producing: Producing Faculty 2023/2025 – Why Not Theatre’s ThisGen Fellowship (virtual/Toronto, CA; Theater Curator and creator of the “Beyond the Red Door” theatrical event series – (August Wilson African American Cultural Center); 2022-2023 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Initiative 2.0 Producing Fellow; Co-Producer – “Building New Pathways” virtual gala (Black Theatre Coalition); Line Producer – ‘A Past Becomes A Heritage’, virtual play reading  and panel discussion (CLASSIX and Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts); Co-Founder – Interfest; 2018-2020 WP Theater Producing Fellow; Artistic Line Producer – McCarter Theatre

Directing: Director, The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission by Malikah Stafford (Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute); Associate Director – SPUNK by Zora Neale Hurston (Yale Repertory Theatre); July 2025 Teaching Artist in Residence – Film Over Gun Violence Program (CMCArts St. Croix, USVI); Director – SCC Redux (staged reading, New Black Fest); Associate Director – Our Town (Broadway – Tony nominated); Assistant Director – Eden (Yale Repertory Theatre); Visiting Director – NYU Tisch’s “Collaboration Reloaded” led by Oskar Eustis and  Suzan-Lori Parks; Assistant Director and Associate Director- SPUNK workshops (Yale Repertory Theatre); Associate Director – Hamlet for Public Theater’s Shakespeare in  the Park

Stephanie has served on both the Philadelphia Young Playwrights and The Playwrights Realm script reading  committees, TCG’s National Awards Committee, LORT’s ‘Equity, Diversity and Inclusion’  Committee and as an NEA Grant Panelist. BA, University of Pennsylvania; MFA in Theater Management, Yale School of Drama.