Dragonflies

“Compassionate, hopeful and exquisitely acted.” 
–Best of 2017, The Straits Times

“Watching Dragonflies is like reading an issue of The Economist from cover to cover: it is chock-full of urgent issues from immigration to xenophobia to climate change. Excellent script, evocative staging, brilliantly played!”
–The Business Times

“A dynamic and fresh look on current affairs that aims to enrich, surprise and stimulate its audience. But overall, the message of Dragonflies is simple: build bridges, not walls.”
–Pride Kindness

“The play’s success lies in how realistic and possible it all is, and the genuine threats feel like they have the potential to seep into our own reality, with very real stakes for characters we’ve come to know and relate to, and evoking intense sympathy as we watch a family completely come apart, helpless in the face of circumstance.” 
–Bakchormeeboy

“A gripping tale of displacement that is, at once, epic and intimate.” 
–Naeem Kapadia, Crystalwords

“A play that ambitiously tackles multiple issues—from climate change to human migration, from racism and xenophobia to openness and generosity, from ambivalence to empathy, from impassioned implementation of laws and policies (when “I’m sorry” really doesn’t mean “I’m sorry”) to the touching gentle connection of human relationships across lines that traditionally do not cross—and somehow successfully stitches it all together into deep, stirring storytelling.” 
–Sticky Rice

“Street's writing is effectual in capturing the pain brewed by grief, as well as the resignation in a person from a marginalised community.”
–Buro247

Stephanie Street is an actor, writer and director born and raised in Singapore. She read English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge before training to be an actor on the Nick Hytner scholarship at LAMDA. Her eighteen-year career as an actor has spanned the UK’s major theatres and TV channels. Theatre credits include James Graham’s Quiz in the West End, and Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nightwatchman for the National Theatre, the latter earning her a Whatsonstage nomination for Best Solo Performance.

Stephanie is currently the Resident Playwright at Pangdemonium Theatre Company and a columnist for The Stage, the world’s oldest theatre publication. She is on the Board of Chichester Festival Theatre and cofounded and chairs The Act for Change Project, a campaign for representative diversity in the UK performing arts. Her other plays (produced in the UK) include Sisters (Sheffield Crucible), Wuthering Heights (Ambassadors Theatre) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Finborough, Yard Theatre and Summerhall; nominated for the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award).