Stephanie Saywell
EDUCATION
Yoga to the People, New York, NY. 200 Hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training & Apprenticeship. Certificate of Completion received August 2018.
Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Blue Lake, CA. Professional Training Program. Certificate of Completion received June 2015.
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. BA Dance and BA Written Arts. May 2014.
EMPLOYMENT
TA - Writer's Anonymous Poetry Workshops with Buddy Wakefield, Fall 2023-Present
Artistic Administrative Assistant - GALLIM Dance, October 2020-Present
Office Administrator - Nancy Rosen Incorporated, September 2020- December 2020
Executive Assistant - Mark Morris Dance Group, December 2018-September 2020
Company Member - Rorschach Experiences (Interactive/Immersive Theater), 2018-2019
Yoga Teacher - Yoga to the People, August 2018-July 2020
Bookseller (Rare Books) - The Strand, September 2018-December 2018
Administrative Assistant - Jessica Lang Dance, June 2018-September 2018
Dramaturg - Ainesh Madan, November 2017-August 2019
Manager - Book Culture on Broadway, October 2015-June 2018
Apprentice – Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, 2014
Dance Teacher & Choreographer – Long Lake Fine Arts Camp, NY, Summer 2014
CHOREOGRAPHY
None of Us Are Built to Last - performed by Grayson Bradshaw, Dahyun Kim, Louisa Miller, Aria Roach. All Over Westbeth, New York, NY, April 2024.
There Was A House - performed by Hallie Chametzky, Lucia Flexer-Marshall, Aurora Vaughan. Take Root at Green Space, Queens, NY, January 2024.
Music Box - performed by Phil Corso. Gestures and Tiny Dances Showcase, virtual, September 2020.
Who needs a title when you have a story to tell... - performed by Kedian Keohan & Sherah Shipman. Fall Immersive Dance Festival at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY, October 2019.
The Horses Running - performed by Stephanie Saywell. Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project, New York, NY, July 2019.
Matryoshka (duet) - performed by Sherah Shipman & Susannah Yugler. Versatility Dance Festival CO 2021, Virtual Screening, August 2021.
Summer Fest at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY, July 2019. Shared Space at the Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY, June 2019.
Matryoshka (solo) - performed by Susannah Yugler/Stephanie Saywell. Out Like That, BAAD!, Bronx, NY, June 2019. The Craft at Threes Brewing, Brooklyn, NY, March 2019. Winter Follies at Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, NY, February 2019. RECESS, Brooklyn, NY, January 2019.
Inter/View - created and performed by Stephanie Saywell & Helen Wicks. Never Before, Never Again Improv Festival, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY, January 2019.
SIREN - performed by Anna Witenberg. Open Performance at Movement Research. Eden's Expressway, New York, NY, November 2018.
Tell Me to DANCE - performed by Kedian Keohan & Emma Lutz-Higgins. First Look hosted by Brooklyn Ballet at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, July 2018.
Your Silence Is Killing Me - performed by Emma Lutz-Higgins/Stephanie Saywell. Women in Dance Festival, BAAD!, March 2020, Bronx, NY. Bard College, November 2017. WAXworks, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY, October 2017. Gibney Dance, New York, NY, August 2016. Created under the mentorship of Doug Varone through his DEVICES program for emerging choreographers.
Intermission - choreographed and performed by Stephanie Saywell. Threes Brewing, Brooklyn, NY, September 2017. MMDC, Brooklyn, NY, February 2017. Green Space, New York, NY, October 2016.
UNDERBELLY - performed by Maria Jose Castillo, Krissy Harris, Kedian Keohan, Emma Lutz-Higgins. SLAM, Brooklyn, NY. June 2017. Made possible by the STREB GO! Commissioning Program for Emerging Artists.
Prairie Dogs - choreographed by Stephanie Saywell and performed with Grayson Bradshaw. One Minute Dance Festival, Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, Arcata, CA, April 2015.
A Pound of Flesh - choreographed and performed by Stephanie Saywell & Sam Asa Pratt. Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents, May 2014.
you dream/drown – performed by Emma Lutz-Higgins & Susannah Yugler. Bard College, May 2014.
mise en abyme - performed by Anna Bikales, Oliver Bruce, Kalena Fujii, Julie Hackett, Ainesh Madan, Sam Asa Pratt. New York Live Arts, April 2014. Bard College, December 2013.
The Road To A Safe Place – performed by Sam Asa Pratt. Bard College, March 2013.
While we were waiting (for something to end) – performed by Kalena Fujii, Helen Wicks. Bard College, October 2012.
Autopsy – performed by Josh Aleksanyan, Anna Biakles, Julie Hackett. Bard College, May 2012.
This Ain’t No Disco – performed by Josh Aleksanyan, Anna Bikales, Kalena Fujii, Emily May Mayer. Bard College, October 2011.
The Insect God - performed by Emily Bovenzi, Patrick Burns, James Lawrence, Meg Lewis, Teresa Russell. Lawrence Academy, May 2010.
PERFORMANCE
BAAD!Ass Women in Dance Fesitval at BAAD!
2020
Your Silence Is Killing Me by Stephanie Saywell
Movement Research at the Judson Church
2019
Nice Try by Sharleen Chidiac
BAAD! Gala
2019
Real Men by Arthur Avilés
Fresh Fruit Festival at The Wild Project
2019
The Horses Running by Stephanie Saywell
Out Like That at BAAD!
2019
Real Men by Arthur Avilés
Matryoshka by Stephanie Saywell
Winter Follies at Spoke the Hub
2019
Matryoshka by Stephanie Saywell
RECESS
2019
Matryoshka by Stephanie Saywell
Never Before Never Again Improvisation Festival at Triskelion Arts
2019
Inter/View by Stephanie Saywell & Helen Wicks
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
2017
Your Silence Is Killing Me by Stephanie Saywell
Threes Brewing
2017
Intermission by Stephanie Saywell
Spring Street Social Society
2017
Immersive Performer with Witness Relocation, choreography by Dan Safer
NACHMO Studio Showing at Mark Morris Dance Center
2017
Intermission by Stephanie Saywell
Center for Performance Research
2016
Phantasies by Ainesh Madan
Fertile Grounds at Green Space
2016
Intermission by Stephanie Saywell
Judson Church/Movement Research
2016
Phantasies by Ainesh Madan
Dixon Place
2016
Phantasies by Ainesh Madan
Dell' Arte International's Carlo Theatre
2015
The Legendary Tale of Rivendell (or The Boy King) as Gwinna, in collaboration with Taylor Brewerton, Kevin Duvall, Emilia Bjork, Eli Renteria
Deliverance: A Clown Piece as Peepers, in collaboration with Taylor Brewerton, Jon Molyneaux, Eli Renteria, Kelly Williams
Those Pants: A Clown Journey as Peepers, in collaboration with Garret Dostal, Becca Finney, Zafiria Dimitropoulou
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow as Lilah, in collaboration with Grayson Bradshaw, Kevin Duvall, Nina Yasick
Commedia Show as Stupino playing the violin in the Underground Band
Love Goes Boom Boom as Lover, in collaboration with Katrina Dolgushkin, Leo Matthis-Dickson, Tushar Mathew, Nina Yasick
New York Live Arts
2014
Old Tactics by Sam Asa Pratt
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY:
2014
no self to help by Julie Hackett
Duet – repertory by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Busted Union by Sam Asa Pratt
Full Circle by Ainesh Madan
Bodies: An Offering by Julie Hackett
2013
Old Tactics by Sam Asa Pratt
Back Bite by Peggy Florin
Pulse 4 by Peter Kyle
Compass by Helen Wicks
2012
Songs of Consent by Jesse White
Precautionary Measures: A Variorum – 186,000 by Helen Wicks
Satsang | 60 Second Loop by Ainesh Madan
Take My Feet by Paul Matteson
Anchors by Jesse White
Trenched by Josh Aleksanyan
TOTEM by Julie Hackett
2011
I Never Got The Message by Isabel Cottingham & Brieze Levy
Ghost Limb by Elizabeth Batkin
Bach Among Us by Elizabeth Batkin
Wherefore Their Soul In Me, Or Mine by Emily Mayer
2010
Coil by Conor Brown
Mirrors on Paper by Emily Mayer
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2009
Cavedwellers by Brian Feigenbaum
GRANTS, HONORS & AWARDS
STREB GO! Emerging Artists Commissioning Program - A grant of space and money awarded to five emerging movement artists annually. New York, NY. 2017
Ana Itelman Prize for Choreography - Awarded to a dance student who has shown creativity and theatrical invention as a choreographer or creator of other forms of performance art and whose work embodies wit and visual flair. Bard College. 2014
Lawrence Academy’s award for Excellence in Dance. Lawrence Academy. 2010
INTENSIVES
-"Dancing with the Camera: Concept to Delivery" an intermediate intensive on dance filmmaking with GALLIM, 2021
-"Dancing with the Camera" an intensive on dance film making with GALLIM, 2021
-An Intro to Eccentric Performance with Avner Eisenberg, 2020
-Third Rail Projects Intensive with Jennine Willett, 2020
-"Becoming" a movement for actors workshop with Meredith Glisson, 2019
-Clown Workshop with Sarah Petersiel, 2017
-Text & Dance Workshop with Mike Mikos, 2017
-Interactive Dance Workshop with Joanna Harmon & Jeff Wirth, 2017
-David Dorfman Winter Intensive at Gibney Dance, 2017
-Immersive/Interactive Theatre Workshop with Journey Lab & Jeff Wirth from the Interactive PlayLab, 2016
-Doug Varone's DEVICES Choreography Intensive & Mentorship Program, 2016
-Immersive Dance/Theatre Workshop with Hope Davis and Journey Lab, 2015
-"Body, Motion, Gesture" a mime workshop with Dody DiSanto at the Celebration Barn, 2015
-Witness Relocation Summer Bootcamp with Dan Safer, Mike Mikos, Hope Davis, Ani Taj, 2015
-Gallim Winter Dance Intensive, 2014
-David Dorfman Summer Intensive at Connecticut College, 2014
-Summer Physical Theatre/Mask-work Intensive at The Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, 2013
-Skidmore Summer Dance Intensive – Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, 2012
-Doug Varone Winter Dance Intensive, 2012
-Bates Dance Festival Dance Intensive, 2011
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Stage Manager - The Meg Spectre Spectacular, directed by Meg Spectre, presented by Bacchae Productions. KGB Red Room, February 2024
Stage Manager - Ugly on the Inside and Death of Beth, directed by Anna Bikales, presented by Bacchae Productions. Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, September 2023
Stage Manager - Do You Feel Anger?, directed by Anna Bikales, presented by Bacchae Productions. Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, July 2023
Stage Manager - The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Anna Bikales, presented by August Productions. Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, June 2023
Stage Manager - Blithe Spirit, directed by Anna Bikales, presented by August Productions. Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, May 2023
Stage Manager - The Romantics, directed by Dan Safer and performed in NYU's Moss Theatre, Spring 2016
Stage Manager - Head in the Sand, directed by Jeremy Pickard with Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative at Dixon Place, Spring 2016
Stage Manager - Gutting, directed by Zoey Martinson at the National Black Theatre, Fall 2015
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Mask-making, Puppet-making, Waltzing, Contra dancing, Swing dancing, Violin, Drawing model, Bird calls and whistles.