Stephanie is an actress, writer, and comedian living in Los Angeles. She is originally from Christchurch, New Zealand and therefore loves Vegemite and small flightless birds.

When Stephanie was a kid she did numerous television commercials in which she blow dried her hair. She still blow dries her hair sometimes, but not in her TV commercials.

Stephanie writes plays and TV scripts. Some of them are funny and some of them are sad, but the best ones are funny and sad. She also currently writes for the LA Weekly and writes The Tangled Web We Watch, a blog for writers about how to write web series and the blossoming business of storytelling on the web.

Stephanie studied Russian at NYU and Comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She is a member of Tim Robbins's theater company The Actors' Gang. She has performed in the musical Annie more than four times.

Stephanie likes Breaking Bad, speaking Russian, Manhattans, and you.

March 2013 Stephanie's blog The Tangled Web We Watch will now also be featured as a regular column in the print edition of the LA Weekly, where she will review and recommend web series. Her first article premieres March 15th!

March 2013 Stephanie's Dunkin' Donuts commercial began running nationally. Check it out on YouTube HERE!

February 2013 Stephanie's ten minute original play, Next of Kin, was chosen as one of eight plays to be performed as part of the the Cleveland area's 2013 Swan Day Celebration of Women in the Arts. For more info, click HERE.

January 2013 Stephanie will be voicing the role of The Virgin Mary in Smash5's Animated Web Series Hell Yeah!, starting with Episode 5, due out soon.

October 2012 Stephanie launched her site The Tangled Web We Watch, a blog about how to write, produce, and promote web series. The site breaks down types of web series and offers interviews with professionals in every facet of the blossoming web storytelling industry.

October 2012 Stephanie booked a national Dunkin Donuts commercial.

September 2012 Stephanie finished her next 1/2 hour original comedy pilot Wing Women about two Wing Women for hire who are actually Goddesses banished to Earth.

August 2012 Stephanie finished her latest original 1/2 hour pilot: American State, about a college party girl who gets kicked out of her sorority and ends up rooming with a group of international students.

May 2012 Stephanie booked the role of the Singing Syringe in Funny or Die's The Wire: The Musical starring half the original cast of The Wire. She also recorded most of the female vocals for the musical.

March 2012 Stephanie finished her spec for the ABC show Suburgatory. See her WRITING section for a PDF.

January 2012 Stephanie co-wrote and acted in Turning Point directed by Gino Anthony Pesi (Battle Los Angeles, Mentalist, Closer).

November 2011 Stephanie was hired as a freelance writer for the LA Weekly. Check out her article interviewing LA street artist Shepard Fairey about his latest mural at District La Brea HERE. And her other published articles HERE.

September 2011 Stephanie shot an episode of Breakfast in the Morning, a Web Series by Will Reese. Check it out HERE.

June 2011 Stephanie started compiling a writing packet for TV submissions. She currently has a Modern Family spec episode, several original specs, and her original web series pilot Wing Women.

May 2011 Stephanie started performing around LA with her improv team PSSSST!

March 2011 MATADOR produced Hors D'Oeurves, featuring two of Stephanie's plays. She acted in two pieces as well including Strictly Business by colleague Gino Anthony Pesi

March 2011 Stephanie booked a national Blue Bunny Ice Cream commercial.

February 2011 MATADOR produced Stephanie's first short film as a writer, "Seeing Other People", directed and edited by company member Sxv'leithan Essex.

September 29th-November 7th, 2010 Stephanie appears on screen as the ditsy, duplicitous Darlene during the MET Theater's stage production of the new musical Campaign

August 10th 2010 Stephanie booked an episode of If the Shoe Fits, the new FOX web series featuring Kristen Schaal

August 5th 2010 Stephanie teamed up with David Dastmalchian(Dark Night) to found the sketch comedy duo: Geek Love Comedy. Check out their first short: Elton & Jean's 9th Grade Biology Project on Funny or Die.

June 2010 Stephanie became a founding member of the artists collective, MATADOR. This group of up and coming actors, directors, writers, and producers focuses on producing original work for film, stage, and the web.

April 2010 The short film Stephanie did with the Shelton Brothers, "Shakespeare With Fries", premiered at the RAW Natural Born Artist Festival You can now see "Shakespeare With Fries" online HERE

February 2010 Stephanie launched her Los Angeles Comedy Travel Guide. Find Daily Detours and longer Travel Adventures around LA and beyond at www.latravelbug.wordpress.com

November 2009 Stephanie is now represented for film and television by Tony Ferrar at Rogers Orion Talent Agency

October 2009 Stephanie booked a national Marshalls commercial. View her spot here

June 2009 Stephanie shot a co-star role on Emmy®-winning producer Steven Bochco's legal drama Raising the Bar, Check out the clip in her

May 2009 Stephanie shot a featured role on the award winning drama Mad Men

March 2009 Stephanie booked an International Heineken commercial. View her spot here

February 2009 Stephanie added her reel to her website-check it out under Video

September 2008 Stephanie was cast as Melanie Warner in the independent Sci-fi short, The Warner Paradox

August 16th-September 13th, 2008-Stephanie played Joan in Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead" directed by Matt Huffman at The Actors' Gang

May 2008 Stephanie completed production on the independent short "The Break-Up Artist," starring across from Brian Phelan,(Skills Like This)

January 19th-March 29th, 2008- Stephanie played Dot in Tim Robbins's revival of "Carnage, A Comedy" at The Actors' Gang in Culver City.

Read the review of CARNAGE HERE

View the Behind the Scenes video of CARNAGE: interviews with Tim Robbins and the cast HERE

November 16th-19th, 2007- Stephanie performed in The Actors' Gang's workshop production of "Bury The Dead" by Irwin Shaw. She played Joan, a naive and obnoxiously patriotic young woman who travels to a WWI battlefield to convince her dead lover to be buried.

September 15th-October 28th, 2007- Stephanie played Olivia and Curio in "Twelfth Night" at the Los Angeles Shakespeare Company in Topanga Canyon. The LA times gave the production "4 rubber chickens out of 5", for excellence in slap-stick comedy.





Stephanie Carrie
SAG	AEA

 

FILM

 

 

Seeing Other People

Principal

Sxv'leithan Essex, MATADOR Productions

Shakespeare With Fries

Principal

Ben Shelton, Shelton Films

The Warner Paradox

Principal

Pablo Lewin, Lewin Productions

The Break-Up Artist

Principal

Neelam Patil, USC Grad Film

Inappropriate Behavior

Featured

Teagan Jones, Toboggan Films

 

 

 

TELEVISION

 

 

 

The Wire: The Musical

Guest Star

Matt Mazany,Funny Or Die

If the Shoe Fits

Co-Star

Allen Colombo, FOX

Raising the Bar

Co-Star

Matt Penn/Jesse Bochco, TNT

Mad Men

Featured

Phil Abraham, AMC

Gilmore Girls

Featured

Chris Long, WB

U.S. Customs Classified

Co-Star

Steve Barnett, GRAB Productions

 

 

 

COMMERCIALS

 

 

Upon Request

 

 

 

 

 

THEATER

 

 

Carnage, A Comedy

Dot

The Actors Gang: Beth Milles (dir)

Bury the Dead

Joan

The Actors Gang: Matt Huffman (dir)

Drums in the Night

Marie

The Actors Gang: John Kellam (dir)

Over the Tavern

Annie

McCoy/Rigby Ent: Terence LaMude (dir)

Twelfth Night

Olivia

Los Angeles Shakespeare Company

Falsettos

Cordelia

Attic Ensemble (NYC)

Fiddler on the Roof

Hodel

Irvine Barclay Theater

Wizard of Oz

Dorothy

La Mirada Performing Arts

A Chorus Line

Maggie

Huntington Beach Playhouse

Eleemosynary

Echo

Pathway Theater Company

Bye Bye Birdie

Ursula

Irvine Barclay Theater

Sound of Music

Liesel

Laguna Niguel Playhouse

Oklahoma

Ensemble

Westminster Theater

 

 

 

TRAINING

 

 

Improv: Upright Citizen's Brigade: 101:Amanda Sitko, 201: David Harris,

301: Drew Difonzo Marks, 401: Alex Berg, Advanced Study: Eugene Cordero

The Actors Gang: Member since 2006, Tim Robbins (art.dir)

Voice: Edward Sayegh

Acting: LA: Tom Todoroff, Kevin McDermott, Linda Phillips-Palo

NYC: Playwrights Horizons Theater School, 2 year acting program (2002-2004)

Shakespeare: Andrew Wade (RSC)

Jazz, Tap, Ballet: Jimmy DeFore Dance Studio

Alexander Technique: Jean-Louis Rodrigue, Kristof Konrad

Voice Over: Keythe Farley, Jeannie Elias

 

SPECIAL SKILLS

Fluent in Russian, Proficient in French

Singing (Soprano F below middle C to F above High C), flute

Accents: Irish, Scottish, British, Russian, French, Dual Citizenship USA/New Zealand

 





Read my Modern Family Spec

"Pride For Sale"

HERE





Read my Suburgatory Spec

"Diversity Day"

HERE





Browse my articles for the LA Weekly

HERE









Read my article about living in Russia on World Hum.com

"Machine Guns in the Afternoon"

HERE






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(818) 769-9111

Email Stephanie @ Stephanie.Carrie@gmail.com