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.
Anticipated Alienation and Critical Social Work: Returning Citizens ’ Perspectives on Reentry
Stebbins, A., & Barak, A. (2021). Anticipated Alienation and Critical Social Work: Returning Citizens ’ Perspectives on Reentry. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(1), 38-56.
2021
View OutputFrom text to context: the agonistic play of text production in Frank Castorf’s The Robbers. In: Das Regiebuch: zur Lesbarkeit theatrale Produktionsprozesse in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Stebbins, A. (2021). From text to context: the agonistic play of text production in Frank Castorf’s The Robbers. In: Das Regiebuch: zur Lesbarkeit theatrale Produktionsprozesse in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Wallstein Verlag.
2021
View OutputAmbivalent Engagement: contemporary opera between populism and the postmodern
Stebbins, A., & Berheide, H. (2021). Ambivalent Engagement: contemporary opera between populism and the postmodern. ACT - Zeitschrift für Musik und Performance, 1-28.
2021
View OutputDramaturgical oper(a n)ations: De-Internationalization in 21st-century American and German-language Libretti. In: Theatre & internationalization: perspectives from Australia, Germany and beyond
Stebbins, A. (2020). Dramaturgical oper(a n)ations: De-Internationalization in 21st-century American and German-language Libretti. In: Theatre & internationalization: perspectives from Australia, Germany and beyond. Routledge.
2020
View OutputImaginary Dialogues: Witnessing in Prison-Based Creative Arts Therapies
Stebbins, A., & Barak, A. (2017). Imaginary Dialogues: Witnessing in Prison-Based Creative Arts Therapies. Arts in Psychotherapy, 56.
2017
View OutputReentry as Performance: Reflections from Institution X
Stebbins, A., & Barak, A. (2017). Reentry as Performance: Reflections from Institution X. Critical Social Policy, 37, 287-309.
2017
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