Katy Stephan
is a remarkable combination of musical and theatrical forces, and her varied resume is proof-to-the-ears that she's an intelligent artistic raconteur. From opera to electronica, medieval song to accordion, she has enjoyed a celebrated performance career. Ms. Stephan has scored original music for theatre projects and her vocals are featured on several film scores. Her recent CD and song-cycle is entitled Saints of the Lost Cause Saloon.

Her collaborations with Randall Stuart & UTB span a decade and have included the international event Lysistrata Project , The Inkwell Communiques , Women of Troy, musical direction for Three Blooms with Word For Word in San Francisco and Bury the Dead at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City (featuring the original song "Come Home")...as well as the recent all-acoustic score for Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.

Other onstage music includes: Shakespeare's All's Well, Richard II, Midsummer Night's Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor (California Shakespeare '94-'97); 20/20 Blake, The Box Conspiracy & Stephen Reich's Desert Music (George Coates Performance Works). She adapted music for de Vegar's Peribanez and The Commendador of Ocana (Cal State Hayward), and performed Marc Ream's scores for several productions by the Gary Palmer Dance Company. Original music includes: Euripides' The Bacchae (voice & percussion on tour of Cyprus).

Film Scores and Featured Vocals: the title theme to the ABC sitcom Hot Properties ; the soundtracks of the films Catwoman, Ned Kelly, The Time Machine, The In Crowd & Tecknolust.

Katy teaches singing, records commercial projects, and performs locally and abroad. She was awarded the 2004 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Performance in a Musical. Her other onstage music includes: soloist in Bernstein's Mass with the Oakland East Bay Symphony under conductor Michael Morgan, and Bernstein's Mass with the Deutsche Philharmonie under conductor Kent Nagano [Grammy nomination].

Learn more and hear Katy's audio samples at: www.katystephan.com


If "music be the food of love", then Katy truly is a banquet. She knows how to bring a theatrical moment to crescendo with a remarkable composition or a thrilling note. My production of The Women of Troy owed its heartbeat to Katy, who developed profound rhythms, tones and song - from the haunting dirge in the prologue to the torrential reckoning at the end of the play. Her composition and scoring of Three Blooms was nothing less than inspired, leaping over three generations of music, and her partnership on Inkwell is invaluable, intuitive and illuminating. I would trust any of my theatrical children to her care. And have.  - Randall Stuart


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