Steph is a '01 BHS grad who graduated from Wright State University with a major in theater. She interned at the prestigious Actor's Theater in Louisville and is working regularly since moving to New York. She performed at Actor's Theater in Louisville as Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Samuel and Alasdair, pictured
below, won 3 NYIT awards including best ensemble cast.
"In an alternate global history, the cold war was decided not by détente, not by nuclear holocaust, but by massive robot invasion. Among the survivors, a team of Russian radio hosts, warmed to a lost culture of 1950s Americana, broadcast a story of brothers’ love drawn straight from the American heartland. Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War combines 1950s radio drama, vintage country music, and Soviet science for a look back in time and forward to what's next."
"As the Girl, Anastasia, Stephanie Wright Thompson is enigmatic, nonchalantly drawing in the men around her while coolly ignoring them. Her spot-on Western-style singing, and work in the play within the play is sweet and heartfelt." ~review
Steph in Another Part of the Forest last summer
The award-winning Peccadillo Theater Company will present a revival of the rarely seen prequel to ThE LITTLE FOXES, ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST, by Lillian Hellman, beginning Thursday, June 3, at Theatre at St. Clement's. Set in the deep South, ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST tells the story of the most "dysfunctional" family in all of American drama- the notorious Hubbards -- wealthy, ruthless, and immoral -- and their rise to prominence.
In the Peccadillo Theater Company’s intense, highly enjoyable production of “Another Part of the Forest,” at the Theater at St. Clement’s, the 20-year-old Regina (Stephanie Wright Thompson) is already a fully formed villain. Meeting her father, Marcus Hubbard (Sherman Howard), and her brothers as young men, however, explains a lot. The play also convincingly reveals just why Regina went on to marry a man she never loved.
Most of the performances are impeccably forceful, and in terms of demeanor, Ms. Thompson could be Bette Davis’s little sister. ~http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/theater/reviews/26another.html
Steph's latest project with the Mad Ones:
The Tremendous Tremendous, written by Bovino, Curnutte and Wright Thompson (who also appear in the piece), is well-researched and infused with many references to the 1939 World's Fair and the general historical era. Also included is a short film of the World's Fair that the Abbotts watch for the final time and comment on. The show is both funny and bittersweet, as the Abbotts tenderly tease each other at times, and also reflect on their past performances and the question of what will come next. Nowadays, in our digital age of easy information, it is hard to fathom how exciting the World's Fair was, as the different cultures and countries of the world were brought together in one park in Flushing, Queens. The Tremendous Tremendous captures that spirit and euphoria of the fact that you can (as Lucillia describes) “walk out the door and go anywhere in the world.”
The cast's talents are on full display as they jokingly perform while drinking and celebrating. Stephanie Wright Thomson (as Lucillia) sings accompanied by Micheal Dalto (as Squid) on the piano. Joe Curnutte (as Charlie) tap dances despite having a wooden foot; Marc Bovino and Henry Vick (as the Henrys) join in the fun too. These moments of performance are not isolated numbers, but rather are brilliantly integrated into the work. ~review http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/tremendoustremendous.php 
