{"id":878,"date":"2018-12-18T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=878"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:49:35","slug":"stephanie-k-brownell","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/profile\/stephanie-k-brownell\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie K. Brownell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stephaniebrownell.weebly.com\/\">STEPHANIE K. BROWNELL<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"m_5375732598156445047gmail-s1\">is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, and educator holding an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Stephanie was a 2018 Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar and is an alumna of residencies and fellowships nationwide including Ensemble Studio Theatre\u2019s New York Theatre Intensives, the O\u2019Neill\u2019s Playwright Observers, Taleamor Park Residency, and Company One PlayLab. Her nonlinear exploration of gender roles, <i>She Eats Apples, <\/i>won the National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Excellence Award, was a runner up for UT WomenWorks, and has been developed and produced around the country. Most recently, her short play <em>A House of a Different Color<\/em> was produced as part of <i>This Place\/Displaced<\/i>, a theatrical response to gentrification and housing inequity in Boston, and her full-length play <i>Chop, <\/i>a cooking show-style exploration of body image, health, and diet culture, was selected for showcase at the Boston Center for the Arts She Said Festival.<span class=\"m_5375732598156445047gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_5375732598156445047gmail-p1\"><span class=\"m_5375732598156445047gmail-s1\">Stephanie is passionate about teaching adults and teens through both university programs and community education. She has seven years\u2019 experience teaching English and writing\u2014including a year teaching high school in Angoul\u00eame, France\u2014and currently teaches at Grub Street, the nation\u2019s largest nonprofit writing center. Stephanie\u2019s creative work is magical, experimental, and intersectional. Her scholarly work focuses on discourses of oppression, resistance, and imagination in contemporary and speculative literature. Publications in fiction, poetry, and drama can be found through the Santa Ana River Review, Typishly Literary Journal, formercactus, and CW Publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_5375732598156445047gmail-p1\"><span class=\"m_5375732598156445047gmail-s1\">As a costume designer, Stephanie has collaborated with Company One, New Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, American Repertory Theater, The Story Theatre Chicago, Boston Playwrights\u2019 Theatre, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Flat Earth Theatre, among others.<\/span><span class=\"m_5375732598156445047gmail-s2\"> Her artistic practice explores the body through a mix of painting and fiber arts. She is currently based in Boston, where she is the Managing Director of Artists\u2019 Theater.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7308,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/878\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}