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 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 HEREView 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.
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Stephanie Carrie
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Seeing Other People |
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Sxv'leithan Essex, MATADOR Productions
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Shakespeare With Fries |
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Ben Shelton, Shelton Films
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The
Warner Paradox |
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Pablo Lewin, Lewin Productions |
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The
Break-Up Artist |
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Neelam Patil, USC Grad Film
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Inappropriate
Behavior |
Featured |
Teagan Jones, Toboggan Films |
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TELEVISION |
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The Wire: The Musical |
Guest Star |
Matt Mazany,Funny Or Die |
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If the Shoe Fits |
Co-Star |
Allen Colombo, FOX |
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Raising the Bar |
Co-Star |
Matt Penn/Jesse Bochco, TNT |
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Mad Men
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Featured |
Phil Abraham, AMC |
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Gilmore
Girls |
Featured |
Chris Long, WB |
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Co-Star |
Steve Barnett, GRAB Productions |
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COMMERCIALS |
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Upon
Request |
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THEATER |
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Carnage, A Comedy |
Dot |
The
Actors Gang: Beth Milles (dir) |
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Bury
the Dead |
Joan |
The
Actors Gang: Matt Huffman (dir) |
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Drums
in the Night |
Marie |
The
Actors Gang: John Kellam (dir) |
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Over
the Tavern |
Annie |
McCoy/Rigby
Ent: Terence LaMude (dir) |
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Twelfth
Night |
Olivia |
Los
Angeles Shakespeare Company |
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Falsettos |
Cordelia |
Attic
Ensemble (NYC) |
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Fiddler
on the Roof |
Hodel |
Irvine
Barclay Theater |
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Wizard
of Oz |
Dorothy |
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A
Chorus Line |
Maggie |
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Eleemosynary |
Echo |
Pathway
Theater Company |
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Bye
Bye Birdie |
Ursula |
Irvine
Barclay Theater |
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Sound
of Music |
Liesel |
Laguna
Niguel Playhouse |
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Ensemble |
Westminster
Theater |
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TRAINING |
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Improv: Upright Citizen's Brigade: 101:Amanda Sitko, 201: David Harris, |
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301: Drew Difonzo Marks, 401: Alex Berg, Advanced Study: Eugene Cordero |
The
Actors Gang: Member since 2006, Tim Robbins (art.dir) |
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Voice:
Edward Sayegh |
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Acting:
LA: Tom Todoroff, Kevin McDermott, Linda Phillips-Palo NYC: |
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Shakespeare:
Andrew Wade (RSC) |
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Jazz,
Tap, Ballet: Jimmy DeFore Dance Studio |
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Alexander
Technique: Jean-Louis Rodrigue, Kristof Konrad |
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Voice Over: Keythe Farley, Jeannie Elias |
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SPECIAL SKILLS |
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Fluent
in Russian, Proficient in French |
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Singing (Soprano F below middle C to F
above High C), flute |
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Accents:
Irish, Scottish, British, Russian, French, Dual Citizenship USA/New |
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Elton & Jean's 9th Grade Biology Project - watch more funny videos
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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Kazarian/Spencer/Ruskin & Assoc. Inc. (818) 769-9111 |
Email Stephanie @ Stephanie.Carrie@gmail.com