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LIGHTSMITH ENTERTAINMENT SERIES

Stephanie’s marriage to theatrical entrepreneur Dan Crawford, founder of the Kings Head Theatre, London began a unique collaboration that was to last 21 years until Dan’s death in 2005.Īs Assistant Artistic Director of the theatre she co-produced over 60 plays and musicals at the Kings Head and transfers to West End theatres, latterly directing & writing for theatre, including PARALLEL VISION (writer), DANCE WITH THE DEVIL (writer) and a children’s musical based on the series The Famous Five, SMUGGLERS GOLD (co-writer and co-lyricist). She has recently curated CIRCUS OF THE SOUL, 12 artists creating new work examining where reality collides with dreams, also combining noted artists with newly emerging.

In New Zealand, where she is now primarily based, she has co-founded Sea Star Studio, a multi arts venue presenting music, theatre, fashion photography and fine art. Stephanie painted all the art work for the film SILENCE BECOMES YOU, an interesting experience of painting as another-in this case, a sociopathic fictional character. A visionary work and an odyssey, it is also a philosophical treatise on the true nature of inspirational creativity and what it means to humanity. women’s prisons through the Edgar Cayce Foundation. She wrote THE SHORES OF GRACE, later reprinted as GOD’S THEORY OF CREATIVITY which was distributed to all the UK prisons through the Prism Project who chose it as their book of the year and to all U.S. She continued to paint for herself and her work changed direction and became a record of visions and dreams. In the mid-90’s Stephanie began to write, direct and produce for film and theatre and moved from static paintings to the moving speaking paintings of theatre and film. In London she was represented by The Moving Gallery, concentrating on large works for corporate venues. Stephanie has exhibited her paintings internationally and was artist/ curator of two International exhibitions in London, AMERICAN’S ABROAD at The Slaughterhouse Gallery, which examined artists born in or identified with America who had greatly influenced European art including Man Ray, Niki de Saint Phalle, Cy Twombly, Alexander Calder and others, (catalogue by art historian Keith Wheldon) & THE LONDON EXPERIENCE at Smith’s Gallery, drawing together International artists from the Turner prize winning to the newly emerging who were living and working in London. Her life has been a continual creative journey in several media with quite a few unexpected twists and turns. Stephanie began as painter and poet, publishing her poetry in anthologies as well as the solo volume BURNT OFFERING and attended the noted California College of Art studying Fine Art and literature.