Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters
Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters (she/her) is the Philadelphia Theatre Company Terrence
McNally Award Recipient for her play, Acetone Wishes and Plexiglass Dreams. She's a recent alum of InterAct Theatre Core Playwright, current American Theatre
Group PlayLab artist, and 2022 Sesame Workshop Writers' Room Fellow. She serves as
the Lead Artist on the Philly Asian Performing Artists' Playwrights Project. Her play,
Esther Choi and the Fish that Drowned will have a world premiere production with Simpatico Theatre Company (postponed due
to COVID-19) and has earned her a spot on the 2020 Kilroys List and Table Work Press
Recommended list.
She recently worked with students at UC Santa Barbara where they workshopped her latest
piece, Dalia is Dead and Her Dad Keeps Making Dumplings. Acetone Wishes and Plexiglass Dreams was featured at the Great Plains Theatre Conference and was a semi-finalist for the
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference. Half of Chopsticks was a finalist for both the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Seven Devils New
Plays Conference, and received a stage reading at the inaugural Boise Contemporary
Theatre BIPOC Playwrights Festival. Whispers of My Sister was workshopped at PlayPenn's annual conference. Stephanie's K-pop romcom, Be Like the Flower, was a finalist for the Austin Film Festival's Table Read My Screenplay.
She is a two-time finalist for Unicorn Theatre's In-Progress New Play Reading Series
as well as a finalist for the Playwrights Center Many Voices Fellow. She was a semi-finalist
for Nashville Repertory Theater's Ingram New Works and received a nomination for the
NNPN Smith Prize for Political Theatre. Due to COVID-19, Stephanie received a 3Views
Theatre The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation Grant Recipient.
Additional plays have been developed with Texas Tech University WildWind Performance
Lab, Asian Arts Initiative, Philly Asian American Film Festival, Dragon's Eye Theatre,
Revolution Shakespeare, PlayPenn, Revamp Collective, and Philadelphia Women's Theatre
Festival.
Stephanie is a proud graduate of Bucknell University and received her MFA in Playwriting
from Point Park University. She currently teaches at University of the Arts.
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