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Stephanie Rolland is a Lilly Award-winning creative producer, curator, and arts administrator. Her work is fueled by connection, experimentation, and laughter. She finds her joy in bringing multi-faceted, swirling, human universes together in space to make magic. Current: Programming Curator, Theater for the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, 2022 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Initiative 2.0 Producing Fellow, consultant with ALJP Consulting Group, and Lecturer in Theatre Management with David Geffen School of Drama.

Experience: Producing Faculty, Why Not Theatre's ThisGen Fellowship (Toronto, CA), Co-Founder- Interfest, Co-Producer - "Building New Pathways" virtual gala for Black Theatre Coalition, Line Producer - ‘A Past Becomes A Heritage’, a virtual play reading and panel discussion for CLASSIX and Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts, KCACTF SDC Directing Initiative Respondent 2021, Director of Theatre Operations for Theatre Row, Artistic Line Producer for McCarter Theatre, Artistic Administrator for Baltimore Center Stage.

She was chosen as a member of the 2018-2020 cohort of WP Theater Producing Fellows, the Americans for the Arts’ inaugural Diversity in Arts Leadership Lab, and the Theater Communications Group (TCG)’s inaugural Rising Leaders of Color cohort. Stephanie has also served on The Playwrights Realm script reading committee, TCG’s National Awards Committee, LORT’s ‘Equity, Diversity and Inclusion’ Committee and as an NEA Grant Panelist. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama.