Stephanie Young is a writer and performer based in London, UK, having moved from Toronto where she worked as an actress and singer, apprenticing at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (winning The Tyrone Guthrie Award) and appearing at the Bathurst Street Theatre, the Tarragon and, most notably, Young People’s Theatre, premiering work by Mordecai Richler.

 

She co-founded ReCreation Theatre Company in London, created initially to tour her adaptations of novels in historic houses.  The company produced her first original theatre writing from which she expanded into scripts for radio and television and, more recently,  prose, in print and on line.

 

In 2007 she won a Peggy Ramsay Award and from 2010-2014 she was Artistic Director of Mofardin Young Production Company with Christine Mofardin, created to showcase women over 35 in all media; Juliet Stevenson was their patron. 

 

Having finished a three-part web series whose story resolves on stage, and the adaptation of a novel by Virginia Woolf the year before, in late 2023  she submitted  her most recent  full-length play - a screenwriter fixes her costume drama and love life on stage, in real time - to script editors;  in 2024 she is writing the new draft.

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