Stephanie L. Sandberg

Stephanie Sandberg (Ph.D. - California - Santa Barbara) is a professor at Calvin College who teaches Theatre History and Communication and is a director for the Calvin Theatre Company. She trained as an actress at the California Institute for the Arts and completed a liberal arts degree at Westmont College. While in University, Stephanie began working with the Lit Moon Theatre Company, an experimental company focused on the use of the human body to convey complex text and emotion using non-traditional training.

Since the Autumn of 2001, her focus has been the dramaturgy of new plays, bringing living playwrights to Calvin College and performing their works. The focus of these productions has been on developing new plays centered on questions of faith for Calvin's Festival of Faith & Writing. She directed the first college production of Arlene Hutton's As It Is In Heaven in 2002 (which toured to the American College Theatre Festival), Arthur Giron's Edith Stein in 2004, András Visky's Disciples and worked with Laura Maria Censabella on Three Italian Women for the 2006 Festival of Faith & Writing. Currently she is working on András Visky's Kaddish for an Unborn Child for the 2009 festival.

Stephanie also serves as a staff director at Grand Rapids' Actors' Theatre where she recently finished directing the critically acclaimed Canadian play Elizabeth Rex and has recently received a Grand Award for her work on Richard III.