Stephen Maxamillion Stahl
Directs
and here is what the critics have said
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The power of this show comes
from the impact of direction and the highly skillful staging by
director Stephen Stahl.
Hari - Variety
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Stahl's direction is first rate!
This work is filled with sincerity and passion...making this marvelous
theatre. He succeeded where others failed!
G.M.G. - Daily Telegraph (London)
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An exceptionally fine and textured
rendering of this deceptively complex work. Stephen Stahl brings
out all the nuances and changes.
L.C. Cole - New York Native
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This version surpasses them all because
of the incredible direction by Stephen Stahl... This is a brilliant
theatrical experience.
J.
Arkatou - Los Angeles Times
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A first rate director with a
first rate actress... vibrant!...Heartstopping!
Jean Luc Wachtausen - Le Figaro ( Paris)
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Mr. Stahl has directed some of the
best works ever seeen on the Philadelphia stages.
Doug Keating - Philadelphia Inquirer
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Stephen Stahl's Lady Day is good enough
to see twice!
A. Bailey - Bay City News
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Stahl's production has the raw power
of a knife in a dark, dirty hallway. A show that works and keeps
pulling you in!
J. Lynn Allen - The Reader (Chicago)
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This show is well scripted, well
directed and well acted, emotional powerhouse... Stephen Stahl is
to be commended for his superb direction of such complex and controversial
material.
D. Deringer - Greenwich Village Press
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Stephen Stahl An internationally
renowned writer and director, Mr. Stahl received his early training
at The Hedgerow Theatre under Jasper Deeter and Rose Schulman, then
moved to New York and studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio.
Production and directorial credits include over 150 stage shows.
A few of his favorites are : Lady
Day which featured Tony-Award winning actresses Dee Dee
Bridgewater, Tonya Pinkins, Hattie Winston and Ann Duquesnay; the
touring production of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains
It All for You which
starred Mink Stole; By Strouse which starred Charles
Strouse and Maury Povich for ABC-TV; ACoupla White Chicks
Sitting Around Talking which starred Debroahlee Scott; Hosanna which
starred Lynne Carter; Psycho Beach Party which ran
for a summer at TropWorld in Atlantic City; Porno Stars at
Home; Women Behind Bars; Tallulah; Thirty
Thousand Pigs Roamed the City; Jerker;
and After the Fall. His writings include Philly's
Beat; American Vaudeville; Yo Philly!; written
for the New Yorker starring Melba Moore; Lady Day; Ella;
Hope Falls; For the Show; Queen of Heats and dozens of industrials. The
West End production of Lady
Day in London was nominated for an Olivier Award and he
became an honoree of Des Auteurs et Composituers Dramatiques in Paris
for the same show. Lady Day also won a Bay Critic's
Award and the National Drama Award. He has directed, written for,
produced and worked with such well-known talents as Bill Cosby, Patti
LaBelle, Sandy Duncan, Jason Bateman, Phyllis Hyman, Evander Holyfield,
Billy Joel, Kitty Kallen, Hall & Oates, Grant Shaud, Julie Gold,
Joyce Heyser, Hattie Winston, Clint Holmes, Bobbie Rydel, Peggy King,
Divine, James Ingram, and Teddy Pendergrass. Recently, Mr. Stahl
directed Stories of the City, Lenny, Airborne
from Deerborn, Full
Bloom, and a concert version of Judy
at the Stonewall Inn starring
Tommy Femia and David Drake which later moved into full production.
Stahl has also produced and directed award shows for P.M.A Music
Foundation and the A.R.T.Y. Awards, both starring dozens of Grammy-Award
winning Artists.
His recent collaboration on Tony And The Playwrite
placed at the San Francisco Short Film Festival. Recently he appeared
in Chain
Link Fence, and directed the acclaimed Sex, Cellulite and
Large Farm Equipment. He wrote and directed the world attention
grabbing Queen of Hearts, the musical play on the life of
Princess Diana which previewed in New York City at the Grove Street
Theatre and was then remounted at the off-broadway Harold Clurman
Theatre. Mr. Stahl has also worked on the recent revival of Tennessee
Williams play Summer
and Smoke and
the New York premiere of That
Holman Woman.
In 2006, Stahl directed an independent feature Consequences.
This film won the Los Angeles International Independent Film and
Video Festivals for Best Feature in the genre category of a thriller.
On the east coast, the New York premiere of Consequences won
him the coveted top honor Best Director of a Feature Film. Consequences was
selected out of 2500 submissions and was the winner out of 500 other
films shown.
Stahls' Artistic Mission
To direct Theatre as an art form. To engage audiences and artists in an
adventure of aesthetic philosophical reflection of contemporary life.
To draw from new sources which are inherently dramatic and theatrical. To
present new works to their fullest potential. To forward a production in
each new level of development.
Committed to direct and produce works by new playwrights from showcase to final
world presentation .
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Stephen Maximillian Stahl
Director - Writer- Producer-Educator
Agent: Fifi Oscard / Carmen LaVia - (212) 764-1100
Unions: SSD&C, DRAMATISTS GUILD, AEA ENGLAND, DES AUTERS ET
COMPOSITUERS, FRANCE
Westend (London) Stages
Lady Day starring DeeDee Bridgewater (Olivier
Award Nominee)
Donmar Warehouse
Piccadilly Theatre
Joe & Me
Fringe (London) Stages
Kings Head
Paris Stages
Theatre Boulogne Billancourt
Lady Day
Temps de Jazz (Jazz Times a musical)
Casse (Broken)
Du Gynnase Marie Bell
Lady Day
starring DeeDee Bridgewater (Des Actrurs Et Compositeaurs
Dramatiques Honorre)
New York Stages
The Shubert/42 Street
Lady Day
Nohos International in association with Steven Spielberg
Too Early Were the Dawns
Urban Stages
Asylum
The Clurman Theater
Crazy Men
The Abingdon Theater
Norma Doesmen
Straight to Hell
Dean
New World
The Hunter
Players
Notorious!
Duality Theatre
Judy at the Stonewall Inn
(Concert version starring David Dreak, Tommy Femia)
WestBeth Theatre
Jerker
New Vic Theatre
He Plays Piano
A. T. A
I'll Be Seeing You
Duality Theatre
Lenny
13th Street Playhouse
30,000 Thousand Pigs Roamed the City
Wings Theatre
30,000 Thousand Pigs Roamed the City
Grove St. Playhouse
Passion
Duality Theatre
Down and Out in the Big City
Nahos International
Too Early Were the Dawns
(in association with Steven Spielberg
and Nahos International, Inc.)
Grove St. Playhouse
Skirts
Altered Stages, 29th Street Rep
Airborne from Deerborn
Grove St. Playhouse
Full Bloom
Grove St. Playhouse
Queen of Hearts
Harold Clurman Theatre
Queen of Hearts
National Tours of Lady Day
Lady Day
starring Ann Duquesnay, Corliss Taylor Dun, Tonya Pinkins,
Hattie Winston.
2015-16 National and European Tour of Lady Day is booked by APA, NYC.
Produced by Tom Gentile in association with Nico Company NYC.
Theatre On The Square
(San Francisco) winner of Bay Critics Award.
Theatre of Living Arts
(Philadelphia) winner of national drama award.
Victory Gardens Theatre
(Chicago)
Next Move Playhouse
(Boston)
White Barn Theatre
(Connecticut)
Karamu Theatre
(Ohio)
Odessey Theatre
(Los Angeles)
Millhill Theatre
(New Jersey)
U.S. Stages
New Orleans Theater Festival in association with Richard Jarboe
Chocolate Covered Presidents
Society Hill Playhouse
Jerker
Sex,Cellulite and Large Farm Equipment
Norma Doesmen
New Hope Performing Arts
Souvenir
Plays and Players
Masquerade
The Philadelphia Academy of Music
Heartstrings
Bill Cosby and Friends
Clarke Productions
Intimate Chaos
Town and Country
(Guest Director)
Summer and Smoke
In association with Palumbo Productions
The Fantasticks
George Street Playhouse
Paper Dolls
Ripley Theatre
Acoupla White Chicks Sitting Round Talking
(starring Deboralee Scott)
Walnut Street Theatre
(Studio 3 Presentation)
By Strouse (starring Charles Strouse)
Women Behind Bars
Hosanna (starring Lynne Carter)
Lenny
P.S. Your Cat is Dead
The Owl and the Pussycat
After the Fall
Kennedy's Children
Theatre of Living Arts
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Starring Mink Stole)
Lady Day (Starring Ann Duquesnay)
Toranto's
Porno Stars at Home (starring Summer)
Plays & Players
Philly's Beat
Toranto's
Chicago Gangstertown
Showcase for the Arts
Tallulah! (starring Tommy Femia)
Leader of the Pack
Sophie, Totie and Belle
We Love Lucy
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Toranto's
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Theatre 22
For the Show
On Stage
Fatal Innocence
Kesley Theatre
The Crucible
Bistro Theatre
Boardwalk Melody Hour
Odette's
P.S. Bette Davis
Kesley Theatre
American Vaudeville
Tropworld
Psycho Beach Party
Theatre 5
Incident at Vichy
Film
Little Champions
(Animal Planet)
Embraceable You
(A documentary)
Playroom
(Distributed through TLA Releasing and Netflix)
CONSEQUENCES
Full length feature
(Won) Best Genre in a Featured Film -February
2006
(Won) Best Director for Feature Film- International Independent Film and Video
Festival - May 2006
Los Angeles, New York City, Cannes, France
TONY AND THE PLAYWRIGHT
Short
Placed San Francisco Film Festival
LIVING DOLLS
Documentary on the garment district.
Special Presentations
P.M.A Music Awards
(written, produced and directed) - starring Patti LaBelle, Joyce
Heyser, Phyllis Hyman, Gerry Mulligan, Evander Holyfield, Jim Vance & Wolfman
Jack.
P.M.A. Music Awards
(written, produced & directed) - starring Billy Joel, Kitty Kallen,
Grover Washington, Danny & The Juniors and Lee Andrews & THe
Hearts.
P.M.A. Music Awards
(written, produced & directed) - starring Hall & Oates, Grant
Shaud, Teddy Pendergrass, Clint Holmes, Bobby Rydell, Peggy King,
Buddy Greco, James Ingram, John Pizzarelli, The O'Jays, The Stylistics.
D.C.A.
(produced)
Divine (starring Divine)
D.C.A.
(produced)
The Tour (starring Grace Jones)
D.C.A.
(produced)
Midnight Love Affair (starring Carol Douglas)
D.C.A.
(produced)
A Night of Girth (starring Pudgy)
Academy of Music
(produced)
Heart Strings (starring Sandy Duncan & Jason Bateman)
Academy of Music
(produced)
Bill Cosby & Friends with Philly Beat (starring Bill Cosby)
The ARTY Awards 1995 through 2001
(directed)
Authorship
2013-14 revision of Lady Day
(Produced)
Decades (The Musical)
(Under option for 2015 production)
Straight to Hell
(Produced)
Embraceable You
(Produced)
A Life in Song
(Work for hire)
Lady Day
(published and produced)
Philly's Beat
(published and produced)
For the Show
(produced)
American Vaudeville
(produced)
Queen of Hearts
(produced)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
(produced)
YO!
(written for Melba Moor/New York Magazine)
(produced)
The P.M.A. Music Awards 1987 through 1991
(produced)
Dressed to Kill
(produced)
Ella
(script upon request)
Hope Falls
(script upon request)
Producing (This is a partial
list)
Acoupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking
Author: John Ford Noonan
In Association with: Ampersand Productions
After the Fall
Author: Arthur Miller
In Association with: Chris Stevens
By Strouse
Author: Charles Strouse
In Association with: Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Divine
Starring: Divine
In Association with: Chris Stevens, Bernard Jay
Hosanna
Author: Michael Tremblay
In Association with: Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Kennedy's Children
Author: Robert Patrick
In Association with: Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Lady Day
Author: Stephen Stahl
In Association with: Karamu Performing Arts
Karamu House Theatre, Ohio
Lady Day
Author: Stephen Stahl
In Association with: Lucille Lortel
Lady Day
Author: Stephen Stahl
In Association with: Chris Stevens
Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Lady Day
Author: Stephen Stahl
In Association with: Richard Horner Assoc.
Next Move Theatre, Boston
Lady Day
Author: Stephen Stahl
In Association with: Richard Horner Assoc.
Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago
Lenny
Author: Julian Barry
In Association with: Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Philly's Beat
Grendel's Lair Cabaret, The Academy of Music and Plays and Players
In Association with: Bill Cosby, Three Numbers/Broadway Bound Productions,
Vincent Fortunato
P.S. Your Cat is Dead
Author: James Kirkwood
In Association with: Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Author: Chris Durang
In Association with: Bank Street Theatre, Ampersand Productions
The Fantasticks
Author: Tom Jones
In Association with: Frank Palumbo
Heart Strings
Starring Sandy Duncan, Jason Bateman
In Association with: Jeanette Roberts
Music Foundation Awards
Author: Stephen Stahl
Written, Produced and Directed by Stephen Stahl
Starring: Grant Shaud, Teddy Pendergrass, Clint Holmes, Ray Murray,
Hall & Oates, Shirley Jones, Bunny Sigler, O'Jays, Mayor Ed Rendell,
Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Tramps, Tom Bell, James Ingram, The Stylistics,
The Delfonics, The Heath Brothers, Rachel Ferrell, Buddy Greco, John
Pizzarelli, Leon Bates, Peggy King, Bobby Rydell, Michael Greene,
Robert Marcucci, Sid Mark, Joe Niagra, Ed Hurst, Hy Lit, Jocko Henderson
and Jerry Blavat.
Music Foundation Awards
Author: Stephen Stahl
Written, Produced and Directed by Stephen Stahl
Starring: Patti LaBelle, David Brenner, Evander Holyfield, Holly
Robinson, Joyce Heyser, Phyllis Hyman, The Spinners, Gerry Mulligan,
Arthur Tracy, Jim Vance, Wolfman Jack, The Soul Survivors.
Video Production for: A&E (for syndication), KYW - NBC T.V. Group
W. (D.P.- David Martin)
Music Foundation Awards
Author: Stephen Stahl
Written, Produced and Directed by Stephen Stahl
Starring: Billy Joel, Kitty Kallen, Grover Wahington Jr., Lee Andrews & The
Hearts, Danny & The Juniors, Phil Spector, Will Smith.
The Crucible
Author: Arthur Miller
The Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County
We Love Lucy
Odette's
An On The Run Production
Boardwalk Melody Hour
Bistro Cabaret Theatre
Philadelphia, PA
Common Destiny
Author: Ronald Primavera
Odette's
An On The Run Production
P.S. Bette Davis
Odette's
An On The Run Production
Sophie, Totie & Belle
Odette's
An On The Run Production
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Author: Charles Bush
Curtain Call Theatre
Holiday Inn - New Hope
Awards and Nominations
(Won) Best Director for Feature Film- International
Independent Film and Video Festival - Consequences - May
2006
(Won) Best Genre in a Featured Film - Consequences -February
2006
(Won) National Drama Award 2000
(Inducted Into) Des Autrurs et Compositeurds Dramatiques - France
1989
(Won) San Francisco Bay Critics Award 1988
(Nominated) Olivier Award 1987
The West End production of Lady Day in London
was nominated for Olivier Award and Mr. Stahl became inducted into
Des Auteurs et Composituers Dramatiques in Paris for the same show.
Lady Day won a Bay Critic's Award and the National Drma
Award.
Mr. Stahl's collaboration on Tony
and the Playwright placed at the San Fransisco Short
Flm Festival in 2005.
In 2006, Mr. Stahl directed Consequences,
an independent feature that won the Los Angeles International Independent
Film and Video Festival's Best Feature in the thriller genre category.
The Ne York premiere of Consequences earned him Best Director of
a Feature Film.
Mr. Stahl has been included in Marquis Who's
Who since
1992.
Related Non-Profit Work
Development of the reconstruction
of Philadelphia's Playhouse In The Park - 1400 Seat Equity Theatre
Architectural collaboration and designing of:
- The Actor's Center (workshops and offices)
- The Bank Street Theatre
- The Ripley Theatre
- Theatre Off The Square
- Theatre of Living Arts
Audience Outreach Program
- Deaf Theatre Program
- Disabled Puppetry Theatre
- Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation through Theatre and Psycho Drama
- USO
Young Persons Apprenticeship Development
- Board of Education
- The Public High School of Creative and Performing Arts
- Actor Training for the Underprivileged
Public Relations
Responsible for all press and publicity for Studio 3 Productions,
The Ripley Theatre, and The Bank Street Theatre. Responsible for
Press Strategy, special campaigns and press conferences. All daily
press efforts, which includes writing press releases for the consumer
as well as the trade, biographies of all talent and management, photo
placement and press kits.
All parties and press receptions. Arrange and coordinate
all special interviews and public relation stories for newsprint,
radio, television and personal appearances.
Designed and executed new
Subscription Campaign:
- Actor's Center
- Bank Street Theatre
- The Ripley Theatre
- Studio 3 Theatre Productions
- Graphics and Stage Design
- Subscription Drives
- Playbill Coordination and Sales
- Organized Workshop Curriculum
- Collaborative Efforts in Advertising and Printing Layouts
- Organization of Grant and Fund Raising Department
- Budgeting and Fiscal Year Projections
- Audience Development
- Trained Secretarial and Counselor Support Staff
- Payroll and Union P & W
Teaching (studios)
- Actor's Institute - Philadelphia
- Bank Street Theatre - Philadelphia
- Studio 3 Theatre Productions - Philadelphia
- Freeze Frame - Philadelphia
- Neighborhood Playhouse - Philadelphia
- Walnut Street Theatre in association with Studio 3 Productions
and Theatre 5
- Actor's Center - Los Angeles
- Dusa Institute - New York City
Workshops (partial list)
- Drama I
- Drama II
- Drama II with video
- Advanced Drama
- Musical Theatre Workshop
- Director's Workshop
- Audition Workshop
- Commercial Acting
- Producer's Workshop
Set Design
Acoupla White Chicks Sitting around Talking
Author: John Ford Noonan
The Ripley Theatre
Adrocles and the Lion
Author: Bernard Shaw
In-transit Players, Philadelphia, PA
Producer: John Cantree
By Strouse
Author: Charles Strouse
Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Kennedy's Children
Author: Robert Patrick
Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Lady Day
Author: Stephen Stahl
The White Barn Theatre, Westport, CT
Producer: Lucille Lortel
Lenny
Author: Julian Barry
Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Porno Starts at Home
Author: Leonard Melli
Studio 3 Theatre Productions
The Owl and the Pussycat
Author: bill Manoli
Studio 3 Theatre Productions
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Author: Chris Durang
The Bank Street Theatre
The Fanasticks
Author: Tom Jones
Palumbo's Dinner Theatre
PRoducer: Frank Palumbo
Administrative/Managerial
Direct and administer performing arts program including
planning/directing of promotion, preparation of budgets, administration
of funds; administrative details and finalizing all fiscal affairs
relating to programs; plan, implement and curates a yearly season
of events that includes an array of community, national and international
performing arts events and the preparation and presentation of performing
arts products; participate extensively in public relations activities;
provide information and/or serves as a consultant to various community
and governmental agencies; direct the design and implementation of
brochures, posters, programs, press releases, newsletters, public
service announcements (if 501c3) and other for-profit or non-profit
related publicity; collaborate and supervise fundraising and marketing
activities. Teaches courses for acting, directing, writing, producing,
public relations and performing arts as needed; responsible for performing
arts program or any equivalent combination. Skills and abilities
indicated; considerable working knowledge of principles, practices
and techniques in the performing arts as demonstrated by the broad
knowledge of the full range of pertinent standard and evolving concepts,
principles and methodologies; considerable working knowledge and
understanding of applicable federal and state laws, rules, regulations
and theories and systems associated with performing (4 year term
on planning and zoning, New Hope, PA); ability to resolve wide ranging
complex problems through the use of creative reasoning and logic
to accurately determine the cause of the problems and resolution
of the problems in an effective, innovative and timely manner; the
ability to interpret and present information and ideas clearly and
accurately; the ability to establish and maintain effective working
relationships with internal and external organizations, groups, team
leaders and members and individuals. Ability to lead subordinates,
manage work priorities and projects.
Artistic Director, The Theatre of the Living Arts
Artistic Director, The Ripley Theatre
Artistic Director, The Bank Street Theatre
Artistic Director, Walnut Street Theatre/Theatre 5
Artistic Director, S.J. Gerenser Theatre
Education and Training
The Actor's Institute
- Lee Strasberg
- Teacher Lee Strasberg
School of Performing Arts
Hedgerow Theatre
- Rose Shulman
- Jasper Deeter |
