Stephanie Machado

Stephanie Machado (she/her) is a Brazilian-American actor, director, and educator born and raised in Miami, FL. She holds an MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama, and a BFA in Acting from SMU. Favorite theater credits include: Laughs In Spanish (Denver Center), Sabina (Portland Stage), The Gradient (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Measure for Measure (Fiasco Theater/Actors Theater), All’s Well That Ends Well and Much Ado About Nothing (Classic Stage Company/Play On Shakespeare Festival), An Enemy of the People, Indecent and Assassins (Yale Repertory Theatre), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (McCarter Theatre), For A Brief Moment I was Something Else (Here Arts), among others. TV Credits: Evil (CBS). Recent Directing credits: The Great Divide at Emerging Artists Theater, Ni Mi Madre at Rattlestick Theater (Assistant Director to Danilo Gambini), Inside The Wild Heart with Group.BR (Assistant Director to Linda Wise), and The Meal: Dramatic Essays on Cannibalism at Yale Cabaret. She is a recipient of the Olivier Thorndike Award in Acting from Yale and the Greer Garson Award in Acting from SMU, and is a Jerome L. Greene Fellow. In addition to Atlantic, Stephanie currently teaches at AMDA College in NYC and is an instructor at the Yale Summer Conservatory for Actors. She has also undergone extensive EDI training with Arts Equity and is trained in the Liz Lerman Critical Response method. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association. www.stephaniemachado.me