Stephanie Street Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Stephanie Street
Acting
Biography
Stephanie was born and raised in Singapore. She studied English at Cambridge University before going on to train on a scholarship at LAMDA. Her theatre work has taken place on the country's main stages and internationally, predominantly in new writing. She's worked with directors such as Peter Gill, Daniel Evans, Rufus Norris, Max Stafford-Clark, Tamara Harvey, Mike Longhurst, Polly Findlay and Josie Rourke. Notable roles include Diana Ingram in Quiz, Marianne in Constellations at Singapore Repertory Theatre, Asha in Rufus Norris' stunning production of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Abi in Nightwatchman, which earned her a nomination for Best Solo Performance at the 2012 whastonstage Awards. She's also worked extensively in television, playing regular and lead roles in series across BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. As a playwright, Stephanie's first play, Sisters, re-opened the Sheffield Crucible Studio in 2010, to critical acclaim. Her adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist was nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award and the Carol Tambour Best of Edinburgh Award. In 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts commissioned Stephanie to write Dragonflies, and in 2018 that play won Best New Script at the Straits Times Life! Awards. Stephanie writes a monthly column for The Stage, is the board lead on Inclusion and Diversity at Chichester Festival Theatre and co-founded ACT FOR CHANGE.
Filmography Movies
Acting
National Theatre Live: Our Generation
Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood. Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyone who is – or has ever been – a teenager. Writer Alecky Blythe (London Road) brings her new verbatim play that tells the stories of a generation. Daniel Evans makes this directorial debut at the National Theatre. A production from National Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre.
Soundproof
About the relationship between Dean, a young deaf man who is accused of murdering his flatmate, and Penny, the sign language interpreter assigned to his case.
Attack the Block
A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Unrivalled in the art of war, undefeated on the field of battle, Coriolanus is Rome's greatest soldier. When a legendary victory brings the opportunity of high office, he is persuaded to stand for election. But while populist politicians tell the people what they want to hear, Coriolanus refuses to play the game. As Rome's most celebrated warrior becomes its most dangerous enemy, the future of the city and its hero hang in the balance.
On Expenses
Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.