STEPHANIE REGINA is a film & theatre actor, a comedic writer, and a creative collaborator along with world renowned avant-garde theatre artists. She appears in classical texts re-imagined for contemporary audiences, as well as original works told through an amalgamation of live performance, technology, and the human experience.

Stephanie is a core company member of Source Material; a collective of artists, musicians, and performers who come together to excavate the deep truths and great stories of our communities. She also acts as the company’s Managing Director alongside Source Material’s founder, Samantha Shay. Source Material has presented work at The Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw, Poland), Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (Wuppertal, Germany), REDCAT (Los Angeles), and HERE Arts (NYC), as well as in Iceland, Sweden, and the UK.

Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Explanation of Benefits; a recurring musical comedy about the history of the American healthcare system, aka “the musical answer to your healthcare questions”.

Stephanie has also performed and collaborated with Lars Jan and Early Morning Opera (THE WHITE ALBUM at Brooklyn Academy of Music & Rosalyn Packer Theatre, Sydney AUS; ON THE FRONTIER with Center for New Performance, LA), Reid Farrington (THE RETURN at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CASABLANCABOX at HERE Arts *Drama Desk Nom), and Theatre Movement Bazzaar (CHERRY JAM).

Stephanie’s first love was musical theatre. She attended Bergen County Academies with an emphasis on Theatre, and spent her summers working at renowned New Jersey venues such as Paper Mill Playhouse, NJPAC, and Surflight Theatre.  While at the Academies she played Fantine in LES MISERABLES, Mercutio in ROMEO & JULIET, and was awarded the Tiffany Rising Star Scholarship through Paper Mill Playhouse upon graduation.

Stephanie went on to receive her BFA in Theatre from California Institute of the Arts.  Some of her favorite roles at CalArts include Frances Farmer in Robert Cucuzza’s HELLZAPOPPIN, Varya in Theatre Movement Bazzaar’s CHERRY JAM (a vivid reimagining of Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD), Martirio in THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (dir. Julianne Just), and Valerian/Anna in the Center for New Performance production of ON THE FRONTIER (dir. Lars Jan).

While at CalArts, Stephanie worked with exceptional theatre artists whose work has been produced all over the world. Under the direction of Samantha Shay (founder of the internationally acclaimed company Source Material), Stephanie helped to create a physical re-imagined version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest entitled DANCING BEHIND MY EYELIDS, which was performed at Club Oberon (in assoc. with American Repertory Theatre). Stephanie also traveled with Fernando Belo's company, The Moving Art Collective, to Brno, Czech Republic to perform a physical/dance interpretation of Caryl Churchill’s, CLOUD NINE at the Setkani/Encounter Festival.