Bio

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”
— Tom Stoppard , The Real Thing

Stephanie T. McGill has always had a passion for the narrative form of art – whether performed on stage or in reading a short story, novel or play. It is the excellence of the art genre, the telling of the human condition in all of its complexity and historical unraveling, which has held a continuing fascination. The human spirit has a need and desire to tell his or her story – as Anton Chekhov’s profound short story, “Grief”, where Iona Potapov must find an outlet to tell his story of the death of his son – so the passion to discover excellence in the telling of a story has been an unquenchable striving.

For the past four years, the primary focus has been on perfecting the art of writing. Writing is a dying art, but a form which continually reveals a stubbornness of vitality and revival. Graduating with a B.A. in Journalism (Spring, 2011), she has variously worked on her college magazine, The Source, and has stepped outside of the college life and worked on the Herald Online, and interned and wrote for Montgomery Life and Frederick Magazine. She has been given the opportunity to write feature stories, as well as contributed to hard news stories and press releases, and has had the privilege of working with many professional journalists.

Despite a full course load at Patrick Henry College, Stephanie found time to successfully direct three major theatre productions; Twelfth Night, The Crucible and A Christmas Carol. All three productions were critically acclaimed by the local Northern Virginia community, the newspaper critics, as well as the college students, and helped usher Eden Troupe into the arena of “mature theatre” in Loudon County. In Fall 2011, Stephanie hopes to step out of the Purcellville college community and into the drama program at Catholic University of America, where she will continue her pursuit of drama as a student in the C.U.A. drama program.

She looks forward to graduating in Spring 2011, and is currently living near the D.C. area, where she enjoys good theater, horse back riding, experimenting with photography and reading any good play or book that comes her way.