Amy Stebbins

Amy Stebbins is an award-winning writer and director specialising in opera and new media. Her work spans film, virtual reality, and mainstage productions for leading orchestras, opera houses, and theaters, including the Bavarian State Opera and the Düsseldorf Tonhalle. Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of contemporary opera, she co-founded New Opera Dialogues, an artist-led NGO fostering international exchange in the field. 

Stebbins holds a Ph.D. in Cinema & Media Studies and Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in History & Literature from Harvard. Her research has appeared in Seminar, Critical Social Policy, The Arts in Psychotherapy, Zeit-Online, and anthologies such as Musik in der digitalen Ära (Rombach Wissenschaft, 2024), Theatre and Internationalization (Routledge, 2021), and Das Regiebuch (Wallstein Verlag, 2021).

Her artistic practice and scholarship have been recognised with fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Academy for Theater & Digitality, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the German Chancellor Fellowship, Akademie Musiktheater heute, and the Fulbright Foundation.

She is currently a Research Associate on the "Immersive Opera" research project, funded by the UKRI's Future Leader Fellowship scheme.