Short Biography

Stephanie Machado is a Brazilian-American actor, director, and educator, born and raised in Miami, FL. She holds an MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama, and a BFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University. She is currently an adjunct professor at AMDA College in NYC, and has been teaching at the Yale Summer Conservatory for Actors for the past five years. Recent Acting credits: The Gradient (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Measure for Measure (Fiasco Theater/Actors Theater), All’s Well That Ends Well and Much Ado About Nothing (Classic Stage Company/Play On Shakespeare Festival), An Enemy of the People, Indecent and Assassins (Yale Repertory Theatre), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (McCarter Theatre), For A Brief Moment I was Something Else (Here Arts), and Christina (Cleveland Playhouse). Recent Directing credits: Ni Mi Madre at Rattlestick Theater (Assistant Director to Danilo Gambini), Inside The Wild Heart at Group.BR (Assistant Director to Linda Wise), and The Meal: Dramatic Essays on Cannibalism at Yale Cabaret. She has worked extensively in the commercial world, and just landed her first co-star on EVIL on CBS. She is a recipient of the Olivier Thorndike Award in Acting from Yale and the Greer Garson Award in Acting from SMU, and is a Jerome L. Greene Fellow. She has also undergone extensive EDI training with Arts Equity and is trained in the Liz Lerman Critical Response method. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.