Stephanie Wells

Biography

Stephanie Wells is a music director and a music/musical theater educator. She has been teaching and music directing for over 20 years. She received her BA in Musical Theater Performance from Columbia College Chicago. In Chicago, she began music directing, playing/touring/recording with bands and started her teaching career at Old Town School of Folk Music. After moving to NYC, she worked as a music director at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU (NYC, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai campuses) and The New School with Elizabeth Swados. For several years, she was adjunct faculty at Kingsborough College where she taught Musical Theater and served as the resident Music Director for the Theater Department. She has worked extensively for 15 years with students with TADA Youth Theater. Recently, she has worked as a faculty music director for The Performing Arts Project as well as serving as the Associate Music Director for the Texas State University Musical Theater BFA program. She has music directed over 30 musicals nationally and internationally.