Tech and Games Awards

Writing Awards

  • Top Three Shows of 2008, Prague Fringe Theatre Festival (Writer/Director “Silkworm”)
  • Top Five shows of 2007 Prague Fringe Theatre Festival (Writer/Director “Blow This Popsicle Stand”)
  • Audience's Choice Award, London One Act Festival (Writer/Director of "Blow This Popsicle Stand")
  • Best Script, London One Act Festival (Writer/Director of "Blow This Popsicle Stand")
  • Critic's Choice Award, London One Act Festival (Writer/Director of "Blow This Popsicle Stand")
  • Funniest Show of Fringe, London Fringe Festival 2005 (​Director/Producer of "P&J:The Mock Musical")
  • Best Original Script of 2005,  Brickenden Awards for Theatrical Excellence (Writer, "Blow This Popsicle Stand" )

Other Awards & Accomplishments

  • Active Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers 
  • Expert Speaker, ARTmatters hosted by Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada ​
  • Anton & Demetra Kariginni Community Achievement Award, Arahova, Greece
  • ​Panelist on the Board of ARTSmatters appointed by her Excellency Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada
  • Board member of the INFLUX writer's group at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa Canada
  • Special guest at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards at Rideau Hall
  • ​Special guest at the Governor General’s Literary Awards at Rideau Hall

Press and Interviews

How did you become a TV animation writer for Disney? Q&A with arts alumna Stephie Theodora.
Directed and Produced "Oscar, Emily and the Giant" a puppet musical on A Channel Morning show.
Writer of "SHINE" was featured on the NBC news as App of the week. 
Breaking into TV writing and how to stay in the game in uncertain times, Stephie sits down with Jesse Bray on his channel.
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People from all over immigrate to LA in hopes of making it big in LA Stephie Theodora is one of them.
In award-winning play The Death of the Good, playwright Stephie Theodora confronts the current global crisis.
From working in Games in Berlin to Story editing a show on Netflix, Stephie maps out her career's atypical journey.
All the world is a stage for this young playwright who plans on doing it all. We sit down with Stephie Theodora before she heads to Hong Kong. 
“People are volatile and afraid,” says Theodora. Hong Kong Television sits down with the playwright before her run at the National Arts Centre.

Writing/ Directing Reviews

"The Death of the Good"
Written and Directed
​by Stephie Theodora

Based on the 2008 Global Economic Crisis.

The starkly original piece dissects the self-perpetuating paranoia into which society has plunged.

“Artstetten”
Written and Directed
​by Stephie Theodora

​​based on the three days prior to the first World War.

Theodora's play has seductive choreography, artful interweaving of romance and tragedy.

“Blow This Popsicle Stand”
Written and Directed
​by Stephie Theodora

​About two existential beings caught in limbo. 

The brilliantly witty text by Theodora dances lightly between existential questioning and psychological games.
The humor is perfectly light, but there's a surprising depth to the piece, with an ending that blazes with hope and redemption.
“A Sheer Delight”
– Alan Stratton, Canadian Adjudicator 

"Silkworm"
Written and Directed
​by Stephie Theodora

​​Based on a Hungarian village in Serbia set during the break up of Yugoslavia.

Theodora, has an eye for detail and timing that is extraordinary. The art of storytelling is central to the success of the show.
...mysticism and industrialization is beautifully personified. Fantastic, in all definitions of the word.
“A popsicle, Grape, has tumbled from the top of his his freezer-case home into the uncharted Arctic expanse of the freezer's bottom. It's a lonely existence, though Grape's philosophical turn of mind helps him muddle through, though the constant hum of the machine's compressed air hose has pushed him dangerously close to madness at times. Periodically, other stick-people of his kind find themselves in this deep-frozen landscape, such as the smug little multi-flavoured bruiser, Cyclone, and an attractive flirt of equally tantalizing taste, Bubble-Pop, though they will both be eventually rescued. Not Grape, though, as the poor fellow is, well, grape-flavoured. The young Canadian troupe Black Hand Theatre has created this sweet, amusing little live action cartoon as a two-hander for Jayson McDonald (Grape) and the versatile Tyler Parr (as the rest of the dessert tray). The humor is perfectly light, but there's a surprising depth to the piece, with an ending that blazes with hope and redemption. Smartly directed by playwright Stephie Theodora, and boasting two marvelous young actors, Blow This Popsicle Stand is the perfect summer treat. Try it.”
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-Steffen Silvis, The Prague Post
At times a (very) tongue-in-cheek Waiting for Godot, at times teen romance, at times a psychological power struggle, Grape’s interactions are hilarious but always human. The brilliantly witty text by Stephie Theodora (who also directed) dances lightly between existential questioning and psychological games – with frequent outrageously funny reminders that we are, after all, talking about popsicles here....
“Artem Barry and Danielle Le Saux-Farmer play a brother and sister living in Skurahnovtaz who reveal through artfully scripted words and su- premely acted vignettes various tales from the village’s past and present. Trees have flesh and fingers, poppy seeds can stop a witch in her tracks, tables dance and (albeit obliquely) tell the future, tulips are black and babies are born with white eyes. While the spirituality continues unabated and the ‘old woman’ next door is viewed with suspicion, we learn of life in the course of the war, of nights of empty air raids, of dwindling sup- plies and of silkworms. People die, though not due to bullets and bombs, and, as Ildi becomes more and more aware of the mystic nature of life in the village, her long-suffering brother stares at the one endlessly repeated movie on Serb television until he is goaded into telling another story from the days when the great oak was just a sapling... The clash of mysticism and industrialization is beautifully personified by the authentic push and shove between the steady brother and flighty sister until the abrupt ending one Christmas Eve. Fantastic, in all definitions of the word.” 
-Wendy Wrangham, Expats.cz
“Having been thoroughly delighted by the Black Hand production of Blow This Popsicle Stand at last year's Fringe, I approached this year's show with high expectations. Silkworm, a self-declared work-in-progress, is characterized by the same clarity and energy as their previous one. The director, Stephie Theodora, has an eye for detail and timing that is quite extraordinary. The two enthusiastic actors, Artem Barry and Danielle Le Saux-Farmer succeed in presenting a host of characters - sometimes eccentric and sometimes touchingly human. The art of storytelling is central to the success of the show. The material is rich and the company has the energy and the talent to exploit it. As it is a work-in-progress the sapling forms an inspiring and engaging piece. I get the feeling they will grow into a truly innovative and significant company. 
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-Sile ni Bhroin, Prague Television 
"Artstetten is an engaging, thought-provoking, and rhythmic dance between the intricate and contentious forces of war and the solace and stability sought and found in love. Theodora's minimalist play inspires kaleidoscopic interpretation through its use of simple props, its militaristic and seductive choreography, and its artful interweaving of Romance and Tragedy."