It’s so important to have that outlook of everyone is human, everyone is worthy, but I also think it’s important, for me, and for everyone to protect ourselves. [As a sensitive child growing up] to protect myself, I dove into movies, I dove into playwriting when I couldn’t get that connection from anywhere else. The Arts is what saved me.
Stephanie Okun is a playwright/screenwriter/director. She is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, student at NYU’s Educational Theatre MA program, and proud former intern/current member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). At a young age, she discovered her love for playwriting and pursued it at Stephen Sondheim’s Young Playwrights Inc., an organization that changed her life. For her, theater is home and she’s always thrilled to be there.
As a playwright and storyteller, I’ve always been obsessed with the truth, subtext, and the things that people say to each other every day. I like to bring this to my work on stage and screen in an often absurd yet thoughtful and sensitive way to reflect the ways that we as people impact each other.
Disaster with a Dad Cut Bad: On a bright Halloween day, two down-and-out souls are united by a kind stranger to drag themselves out of their own misery and away from the so-called loved ones who haunt their lives. The play explores gaslighting, the impacts of verbal abuse, and finding hope through empathy and friendship.
Plays & Dramas
$20.00 + $2.00 fee – $25.00 + $2.00 fee
October 30, 2023-November 1, 2023
30 minutes
Under St Marks
First Online with Fran 
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