STEPHANIE CONNELL

Stephanie Connell is the progeny of an Irish actor father and a renowned film editor mother.  Her brother, Michael Connell, is a feature film music editor, so the arts are definitely in the family blood!

She trained professionally as a ballerina at the Hampshire Ballet School, when it was that, where Anthony Dowell first studied. After quite literally breaking her leg, sadly, she discovered that dancing and ski-ing did not mix, so she continued with her acting instead.

Her theatrical roles include: An Inspector Calls (Oxford Playhouse); The Curious Case of Lady Fowler (September 2019 short tour); Go for it, Girl! (September 2018 short tour); Beneath the Blue Rinse (lighting technician and co-producer, 2018 short tour); The Wet Peacock and The Owl & Pussy-Cat: What Happened Next (October 2017 short tour); The Wet Peacock and Heart Broken, (May 2017 short tour);  Silent on the Matter (Old Fire Station, Oxford); William Langland, Poet & Dreamer (Malvern Festival); Storyteller (Watermill); The Merry Wives of Essex (Watermill); Best Laid Plans (Soho Theatre); The Song of the Shore (Windsor Festival); The Nearly Man (Windsor Festival); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Salisbury); An Inspector Calls (Everyman Cheltenham & Oxford Playhouse); Table Manners (Wycombe Swan); Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Bold Girls; The Norman Conquest Trilogy, to name but a few.

Film and television appearances include Raging Grace, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Vauxhall Heroes Ident, The Paradox Series, Rapture, Like a Rolling Stone, Isadora, Call of the Wild, Triple Zero, Angel Baby, GSOH, Shop Spank, National Trust Away Day, Halifax fp, Good Morning Australia, Oxy on the Spot and Living Dangerously.

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She is a member of Actors & Writers London and the Watermill Theatre’s Actors Forum, a trained computer systems analyst and an award winning web designer.

Stephanie is also a professional medical roleplayer, working alongside training doctors to help medical students obtain the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours to be able to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues in varying circumstances.  She works for the NHS, training clinicians to have a better understanding of patients with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, depression, chronic pain, COPD and patients with difficult lifestyle behaviours.  She is a CSA/RCA Training Roleplayer.

Stephanie is also an Actor Facilitator for Buckingham University, teaching communications skills to the medical students.

And a CSA/RCA Medical Roleplayer Co-ordinator for Health Education England, at The Horton Postgraduate Centre, Banbury, the Lead Simulator for GP Registrar Recruitment for the Thames Valley and Lead Roleplayer Co-ordinator for Paediactrics ST1 Interviews in Oxford.

Stephanie has written the following plays:

• The Curious Case of Lady Fowler – selected for Living the Drama’s September Care & Residential Tour 2019; showcased in AWL Showcase in June 2019 and performed in StageWrite’s Festival in September 2019.
• Unblind Date – finalist of AWL’s Don’t Go There Competition 2017
• Heart Broken – winner of AWL’s Change of Heart Competition 2016 and Living the Drama Care Home Tour 2017
• Birds of Prey – co-written with Carolyn Lloyd-Davies and chosen for a play reading at AWL, 2016, directed by Maurice Thorogood