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Stephanie was born and raised in Singapore. She studied English at Cambridge University before going on to train on a scholarship at LAMDA.
She has acted on the country's main stages and internationally, predominantly in new writing, working worked with directors such as Peter Gill, Daniel Evans, Rufus Norris, Max Stafford-Clark, Tamara Harvey, Mike Longhurst, Polly Findlay and Josie Rourke.
Notable roles include Sicinius in Coriolanus at the National Theatre, Diana Ingram in Quiz, Marianne in Constellations at SRT, Asha in Rufus Norris' Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Abi in Nightwatchman, which earned her a nomination for Best Solo Performance at the 2012 whastonstage Awards.
She's worked extensively in television, playing regular and lead roles in series across BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. Recent and forthcoming work includes The Lady and Breathtaking for ITV and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder for BBC3/ Netflix.
As a playwright, Stephanie is currently under commission by Sheffield Theatres, Chichester and Pangdemonium. Her debut play, Sisters, re-opened the Sheffield Crucible Studio in 2010, to critical acclaim. Her adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist was nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award and the Carol Tambour Best of Edinburgh Award. In 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts commissioned Stephanie to write Dragonflies, and in 2018 that play won Best New Script at the Straits Times Life! Awards.
Stephanie writes a monthly column for The Stage, is the board lead on Inclusion and Diversity at Chichester Festival Theatre and co-founded ACT FOR CHANGE.
She has acted on the country's main stages and internationally, predominantly in new writing, working worked with directors such as Peter Gill, Daniel Evans, Rufus Norris, Max Stafford-Clark, Tamara Harvey, Mike Longhurst, Polly Findlay and Josie Rourke.
Notable roles include Sicinius in Coriolanus at the National Theatre, Diana Ingram in Quiz, Marianne in Constellations at SRT, Asha in Rufus Norris' Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Abi in Nightwatchman, which earned her a nomination for Best Solo Performance at the 2012 whastonstage Awards.
She's worked extensively in television, playing regular and lead roles in series across BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. Recent and forthcoming work includes The Lady and Breathtaking for ITV and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder for BBC3/ Netflix.
As a playwright, Stephanie is currently under commission by Sheffield Theatres, Chichester and Pangdemonium. Her debut play, Sisters, re-opened the Sheffield Crucible Studio in 2010, to critical acclaim. Her adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist was nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award and the Carol Tambour Best of Edinburgh Award. In 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts commissioned Stephanie to write Dragonflies, and in 2018 that play won Best New Script at the Straits Times Life! Awards.
Stephanie writes a monthly column for The Stage, is the board lead on Inclusion and Diversity at Chichester Festival Theatre and co-founded ACT FOR CHANGE.