Choreographer
Stephanie Dufresne
Fledermaus, The Flying DutchmanBiography
Stephanie is a dancer, actor and choreographer from west of Ireland. She holds a BA in Dance from the Rotterdam Dance Academy and is a graduate of the full-time programme for screen-acting at the Bow Street Academy in Smithfield. Since graduating she has enjoyed combining her skills as a performer for companies and choreographers like Coiscéim Dance Theatre, Protein Dance, Chrysalis Dance, Dam Van Huynh, Marguerite Donlon, Liz Roche, Emma Martin/United Fall and Junk Ensemble. Stephanie has worked with Irish National Opera on Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice, Gerard Barry's Alice's Adventure's Underground, Bizet's Carmen and Rossini's William Tell and made her opera-directing debut in Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s Dust in the highly praised 20 Shots of Opera. Stephanie was one of four performers in INO's production of Brian Irvine and Netia Jones’s Least Like the Other, at the Royal Opera House in London, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award. She played the lead role of Karen in Selina Cartmell’s production of The Red Shoes for Gate Theatre in 2017 and has appeared as a performer in music videos for Junior Brother, Talos, Dean Lewis, Crash Ensemble and Galia Arad among others. As an actor Stephanie most recently finished playing the lead role of Ellie in Deirdre Kinahan’s Tempesta and was an ensemble member/movement director of Cathal Cleary’s production of A Streetcar named Desire in December 2024. As a choreographer; Stephanie's show After Love premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2021.
February 2025