Stephanie Cowan
Creative Development
Stephanie is a producer, dramaturg and occasional casting director who develops and curates new work by new voices. She is the Creative Director at Gold/Ross Productions, a Tony Award winning theatrical production company dedicated to bringing unconventional stories to the stage.
As a freelance dramaturg, she is currently working on Trial, a new musical by Warren Adams and Michael Ogborn. She is also an Associate Casting Director at Michael Cassara Casting and the Line Producer for JoCo Cruise, an annual music, comedy and gaming cruise hosted by singer-songwriter, Jonathan Coulton. She was an Associate Producer on the Broadway production of Amélie, which she helped develop from its early stages at Triptyk Studios, where she was Director of Development from 2008-2017. During her tenure at Triptyk, the company produced many projects, including the NY Times Critic’s Pick My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer by Brian Watkins, the Broadway and US touring productions of Xanadu, 12-time Tony-nominated Broadway, National Tour and West End productions of An American in Paris, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America and the Broadway and Netflix hit comedy, Oh, Hello.
While in quarantine, Stephanie produced "Broadway Does Mother's Day," a benefit for BC/EFA, "Curtain Up!," a 26-episode series devoted to connecting performers with seniors in isolation, and is currently the creative producer for Laura Benanti's Sunshine Songs, all directed by longtime friend and frequent collaborator, Ashley Rodbro.
Stephanie is often a guest teacher at AMDA and The Growing Studio, has served as an adjudicator at Dayton Playhouse's FutureFest, was a judge for the New York Musical Festival, and has been a selection committee member for the NAMT Festival of New Musicals from 2012 to 2014, with whom she continues to consult every year. She is an alumna of CTI.
Something you wish you had helped to make:
To All the Boys I’ve loved Before
Favorite shows/movies/podcasts:
Six Feet Under, Veronica Mars, The Fugitive, The Lives of Others, Death, Sex & Money, Heavyweight
Favorite hobby/pastime:
Taking epic walks and decorating cake (then eating said cake).
“I’d like to learn (how to)...
Play the piano
Interesting Fact:
I was on the Rugby team my freshman year of High School.
Hometown:
Lone Tree, CO
