Stefanie Sertich, MFA

Program Director and Associate Professor of Theatre in the Humanities Dept at LaGaurdia Community College.  Click here for more info on the theatre dept.

Originally from Detroit, MI. Stefanie has lived in many different areas of the United States.  From the Mid-West, to New England, to the Pacific Northwest, to Southern Florida and for the past 10 years, NYC.

Last fall, she directed Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, at LGCC.  Which was peer reviewed and performed at KCACTF Region I 2015.

Other upcoming productions she will be directing include a staged reading of Yesterday Iran, Today Iraq by LS Goldberg at the Dramatist Guild on Dec 7, 2012 and the world premiere of Off the Kings Road by Neil Koenigsberg at Theatre for the New City on February 6th, 2013. 

Other NYC credits include the world premiere of Heathens by Heather Hill (Theatre for the New City/Crystal Field Producer).  the world premiere of Eduardo Machado’s Havana Journal, 2004 (INTAR Theatre/ Theater for the New City), Like You Like It (The Broadway Workshop), The Dome (Prospect Theatre), Museum Pieces (Prospect Theatre), Do Gooder (The Public- NYU MFA workshop).  Regional and Summer stock: Annie (Millbrook Playhouse), Cole Porter’s You Never Know (Millbrook Playhouse), Picnic (Western Oregon University), Animal Farm (The New Rep in Boston), Electra, (Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon- Winner KC/ACTF Directing Award), Kimberly Akimbo (Salem Rep Theatre).  Stefanie has directed several pilot workshops for ITheatrics and Disney Theatricals in New York City  and assistant directed the National Tours of A Year with Frog and Toad and The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (dir. Tim McDonald).  She won the F.A.I.R recipient in directing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2005, Meritorious Achievement Award for Direction of Electra, KC/ACTF, 2005, Runner-Up, SSDC Directing Fellowship KC/ACTF, 2004.  BA Acting (Western Michigan Univ.), MFA Directing (University of Portland). 

Stefanie is the Co-Vice Chair of Kennedy Center's American Collegiate Theatre Festival, Region 1.  She also serves on the Selection Committee for KCACTF.