Stephanie shine - bio

(last updated 2008-04-28)

Stephanie Shine is completing her 10th season as Artistic Director of Seattle Shakespeare Company where she has directed The Comedy of Errors, Swansong by Patrick Page, Cyrano de Bergerac, the lauded all-male Taming of the Shrew, Measure For Measure, Richard II, Wild Oats, Hamlet, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry IV, pt 1. Her other directorial credits include, The Comedy of Errors for Colorado Shakespeare Festival, I Am of Ireland (which she also conceived and adapted), and A Christmas Memory for Book-It Repertory Theatre, Love’s Labors Lost for Cornish College of the Arts, A Christmas Carol (also adapted) for Bainbridge Performing Arts, and the award-winning one-woman Marilyn Monroe Biopic, Marilyn: Forever Blonde, which is currently touring across the nation. A well-known actress in the Northwest, she has performed for the Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, The Empty Space, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Tacoma Actors Guild, as well as several theatres across the nation including both the Oregon and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals. Her Shakespearean roles include Juliet, Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice, Regan, Feste, Kate, Bianca, Dionyza, The Princess of France, Hero, and Perdita. Stephanie is a graduate of the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program and the very proud mother of Conor and Cahilan Shine.