Directed by Grace Stephenson
Battle Girl is a powerful force to be reckoned with, but when she glitches out of her video game and into the real world she is plagued with the daunting reality of what it means to be a human and the creator must come to terms with the responsibility of her own creation.
Director’s Note:
Grace Stephenson
It is so exciting to bring Gamer Girl to the Dairy Theater with The Upstart Crow Theatre Company! Recently premiering at Denver Fringe Festival, Gamer Girl is a through the looking glass story. Rather than our protagonist, Battle Girl, leaving reality and going to wonderland – she is warped out her video game and into the real world. Encoded with existential dread she must come to terms with the crushing understanding of what is to be human and face the woman who made her. This is a show with a lot of fun, heart, amazing talent – hope you enjoy it!
Theater and Grace Stephenson go hand in hand – whether acting, directing, or writing she loves bringing pieces to life and working in creative spaces. Her other Denver projects include Cecily in The Odd Couple & Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Gamer Girl is her Denver directing debut, but she has also directed 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & assistant directed NINE at Berklee College of Music where she studied Vocal Performance and Musical Theater. TV credits include playing a dead body hidden under a tarp of hay and a woman held at gunpoint forced to be an accessory to murder on the ID channel – no, she will not tell you what episodes.
Lilly Stannard is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and artist-researcher interested in the transformative nature of the arts in various settings. Her recent acting credits include Hotspur in Henry VII (Gallatin Theater Company), Leena in Portraits US (Verbatim Performance Lab) and Callie in Stop Kiss (Uproar Theater Company). You can catch Lilly performing and dancing around Denver with the Charlie’s Dance Crew and Queerlesque: Denver.
Andrew Catterall (he/they) is an actor, writer, director, and all-around hoot-and-a-half originally from Southeast Michigan. He moved to Denver in December 2020 to be ever so slightly closer to the sun. His interests include, and are extremely limited to, board games, video games, mind games, and buying and wearing pairs of pants that random passersby in grocery stores and airports compliment him on. He is currently in the active contestant pool to be on Jeopardy, and with any luck, some day in the not-so-distant future, he will be called up and flown out to Culver City, and then and only then, when the studio lights hit his mustachioed face and the camera settles on his podium, will he realize, in a moment of sheer unadulterated terror, that he has never known what to do with his hands.
Stephanie Dees has spent the majority of her life performing in theater, film, and television, beginning at the tender age of three. She has found love, community, and purpose in live theater, both as a performer and an audience member, and she is thrilled to be back in her home away from home. L.A. Theater credits include: Terminal at Theatre/Theater, Everyman at Third Stage, Tell the Bees. at Sacred Fools. Film credits include: Halloween IV, The Buttercream Gang I and II, and The Collingswood Story. Big thanks to Phil and Oliver for always cheering her on and being her biggest fans. Team Family Activate!