Stephanie Lynn Wilson

South Bronx born, Stephanie was so inspired and brought to tears when she saw the original production of "A Chorus Line" on Broadway and the anthem "What I Did For Love", that she decided to go for it and auditioned for NYU School of the Arts' intensive Theatre Program. She was laughed at by her celebrity auditors when she had a mishap with a prop as she performed a monologue from her favorite playwright, Tennessee Williams' play "Summer and Smoke". She was thrilled and surprised when she got her acceptance letter into the elite program. However talented, she wasn't quite up to the rigors of the program at that point in her life and threw in the towel after 2 years of attendance. She began to pursue acting professionally, not for the usual reasons, but out of love and therapeutic need. As she matured she began to realize that she was not just an actor but an Artiste; motivated by the love and respect for the craft, and to use the arts for change. She later became an "accidental" playwright as a resident at the now defunct R.A.P.P. Arts in the East Village which had a pool of rather well known actors and wrote her first full length play there. 20 years later she would direct, and produce that play, "A Wound In Time", at the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe. During the show's run she auditioned for Rome Neal's Julius Caesar Set in Africa and landed the role as the Soothsayer. It would be her first time on stage in 22 years. She went on to write her second play, the Creole historical drama "Blood Makes The Red River Flow", directing, producing, and acting in a supporting role with many lines. It was a major breakthrough for her as an actor to find that she could still memorize many lines in her advanced years! She remounted "A Wound in Time" at Off Broadway's St. Lukes Theatre in the fall of 2012 for 4 performances. She also adapted it into a screenplay which came in as quarter and semi-finalist in two International Screenplay Contests. After 6 years she struggles to wrap production of the feature film by summer 2016. She recently completed writing a trilogy of plays, and hopes to mount the full production of the entire trilogy in the June, where she again will play a supporting role as well as direct and produce. She has yet to pay herself for any of her work but she stays true to the song that inspired her by "doing it for love"...