Stephanie Ybarra is only a couple of months into her full-time role as the artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage, but already she has met for listening sessions and meet-and-greets with dozens of leaders in the Baltimore community, been named the keynote speaker of Maryland Arts Day in Annapolis on Feb. 14, and completely rearranged the admin offices at 700 N. Calvert St.
If that’s what she’s done in less than two months, you can imagine what she’s accomplished in her almost two decades at theaters of all sizes across the United States. Some achievements include bringing full Shakespeare productions to prisons and community centers as the director of special artistic projects for The Public Theater in New York; curating and casting Two River Theater’s Crossing Borders Festival of Latinx plays; and serving as associate managing director of new play development for Yale Repertory Theater and Yale School of Drama, among other impressive positions and honors.
In 2016, she co-founded the Artists’ Anti-Racism Coalition, a grassroots effort to help the Off Broadway community dismantle systems of exclusion and oppression. A couple of years ago, instead of just complaining about the lack of representation in theaters’ seasons, she and colleagues wrote directly to artistic directors and had discussions about how they could represent more content creators of color.
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