Stephanie Johnstone works as a NYC-based composer and lyricist working in music-drenched, highly collaborative theater.  She studied drama at Tisch/NYU, and she participated in Adam Guettel’s group lab class through MTW. In addition, she was noted as the youngest member of the New Dramatists’ Composer/Librettist Studio in 2006.

Johnstone’s songs have been performed at Joe’s Pub, HERE Arts Center, and Cafe Vivaldi, and she contributed material for DREAMMAKERS (with Brian D’Arcy James) at the Children’s Aid Society. As a music director Stephanie has worked with Liz Swados and Taylor Mac, among others, and she recently spent a year in Prague collaborating with the Czech gypsy/folk band Tripura.  Projects currently in development include a song cycle about the end of the world, a “Musical Fantasia On Piratical Themes”, and an opera for Heather Christian.