Who is she?

Stephanie Mae Fisher is a costume designer, maker, deep thinker, and artist. Currently finishing up her Master of Fine Arts degree in costume design at the University of Texas at Austin, she will soon be based in NYC. As a costume designer, she has created work for dance, stage plays, opera, and musical theatre in many parts of the country, and is eager to push beyond these boundaries as well. She has been nominated for B. Iden Payne Awards for her work on Matawan and Mammoth at UT Austin. After earning a BA in Theatre (Arts Management) from Baldwin Wallace University, Stephanie worked for several years in various costume-related capacities at regional theatres, including Washington National Opera (Kennedy Center), Signature Theatre (Virginia), Great Lakes Theater (Ohio), Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. She has been the costume shop manager at New York Stage and Film and Peterborough Players. 

Stephanie believes passionately in storytelling as activism and artistic collaboration as a way of connecting across history, geography, and personal differences. Her thesis work examines how designers combine imagination with research and respect to illustrate cultural stories on stage. She aims, through careful research and meaningful exploration, to consistently create characters that feel true and have the power to illuminate the humanity in all of us.

Wingspace Professional Mentorship Program Mentee, 2020-21.