Directing

Stephanie has directed movement-based, interdisciplinary performance, dance & theater since 1975.

During 2005 - 10, she served as Associate Artistic Director of The Gravity Project, an integrative theater company of professional directors, actors, movers, designers & composers, affiliated with Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA.

Core Gravity Project artists included director Andy Belser, designers Randy Ward & John Ambrosone, video artist Nathan Wagoner, and collaborating actor/dancers Kate Clarke, Nate Dryden, Andrew Olewine, David Nevell, and Kennedy Brown.

In addition to her ongoing choregoraphic projects, Stephanie has directed existing scripts, theater works generated from poetry, original ensemble-generated works, and her own scripts, including:

Noir Noir Noir (2013) inspired by film noir, script by Stephanie Skura

Two Huts (2011) script by Stephanie Skura

The Corduroy Prayer (2009) Based on twelve of the 36 classic 'dramatic situations', script by Stephanie Skura

Nine Gates (2006) based on poems by Jane Hirschfield, Stephen Dobyns & others

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2006)

Enrico IV (2007) loosely based on the play by Pirandello

Return (2009) original work about sense of place, with shadow puppets by Stephen Kaplan