Stephanie Bast is a professional actress & singer with a dozen years’ New York stage experience, including six Broadway musicals—most recently Nine (based on Fellini’s 8 ½ ), starring Antonio Banderas & Chita Rivera. Stephanie also has numerous film & TV credits, including the 2006 hit film Half Nelson, for which Ryan Gosling was nominated the Academy Award. She had the great privilege of kissing her leading men in both projects.
Stephanie began drawing as a child, discovering an uncanny ability to convey personality even when drawing stick figures. As an adult artist, this eye for personality shows itself in her expression of emotion as the skin of her pieces. People, landscapes and even inanimate objects have an emotional translucence for her, which she struggles to convey in paint, giving her work an often other-worldly sensibility. Stephanie is thrilled that her art allows her to paint powerful sexy women whose stories shine right on their face. Her first painting won a contest at age 7 and was hung at First National Bank in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her favorite childhood gift was a stack of blank paper & a Crayola Crayon caddy.
Stephanie’s most recent show was a triumphant Fall ’08 exhibition at the wonderful GINA Gallery & Café, on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Thanks to Mom, Dad, David, & the El Portal Theatre family. |
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