Stephanie is an improviser, music director, writer, and psychologist whose work blends creative expression with a deep understanding of human behaviour and group dynamics.

She began improvising in Chicago, training and performing at world-renowned institutions including The Second City, iO, ComedySportz, the Annoyance Theatre, and with the musical powerhouse Baby Wants Candy. She went on to serve as Music Director for the long-running cabaret Roxy Bellows Live! and has written a dozen original musical comedies, including the cult favourite Yippee Ki Yay, Merry Christmas: A Die Hard Parody Musical, performed in ten U.S. cities since 2015.

Throughout her career, Stephanie has been mentored by some of improv’s most influential figures—including Mick Napier, Susan Messing, Joe Bill, Rachael Mason, Anthony LeBlanc, the late Jim Zulevic, and Wayne Brady—an artistic lineage that continues to shape her practice. She also produced MINT, an eight-year weekly musical improv programme in Chicago that developed new forms and trained dozens of music directors and coaches until 2020.

Now based in the U.K., Stephanie performs with the Totally Improvised Company of Manchester and created GRIT: Green Room Improv Training, an initiative bringing accessible improv and musical improv training to communities across Cumbria.

At AndAlso, Stephanie specialises in musical improvisation, ensemble song creation, and narrative longform. Her facilitation style is warm, insightful, and psychologically informed—drawing on her background as a clinical psychologist to help people feel grounded, connected, and creatively bold.

Favourite improv moment: Hearing an entire audience spontaneously harmonise during a fully improvised finale—proof that when people feel supported, they’ll surprise themselves with what they can create together.