Stephanie Ybarra

Stephanie Ybarra is an artistic producer currently in her first season as the Artistic Director at Baltimore Center Stage. Prior to working and playing in the Charm City, Stephanie served The Public Theater as the Director of Special Artistic Projects, where she led the Mobile Unit and Public Forum programs. Her career started in her home state of Texas, working with Dallas Theater Center and Dallas Children's Theater. She then fled to cooler climates, spending time at Yale Repertory Theater, Two River Theater Company, and Citizen Schools, a national after school program based in Boston. Because teaching is a hard habit to break, Stephanie continues to serve as a faculty member at The Juilliard School, and repeatedly finds herself guest lecturing for artists and producing students at NYU, Yale School of Drama and more. In light of the current state of the world, she co-founded the Artists’ Anti-Racism Coalition, a grassroots effort to help the Off-Broadway community dismantle systems of exclusion and oppression. She has received the Josephine Abady Award for producing from New York's League of Professional Theatre Women, the Congressional Award for Achievement in Excellence from Zara Aina, an international nonprofit dedicated to community-engaged artmaking, and for her sustained work around diversity and inclusion, Stephanie received the prestigious Nation Builder Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators in 2018. In 2019, she was selected as a YBCA 100 honoree. Stephanie holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama, and a deep belief in the power of the post-it note.