Stephanie Angelini(I)
- Additional Crew
- Art Director
- Art Department
Stephanie (Wooley) Angelini (Wilson), CFRE began hanging around sets when she
was 12 and Martin Ritt let her sit next to him in the swamp during the
filming of Sounder. She spent the next six years stowing away in the
back of her father's car, picking up colorful language on grip trucks
and learning where they hide the candy on prop trucks. The house in
which she grew up was filled with characters from stage, screen and
tavern. Her father was production designer, Peter Wooley, a colorful
character in his own right. At 18 she was hired as a production
assistant on the Katherine Hepburn film, Olly Olly Oxen Free, as the
stunt double for the sheep dog flying in a Hot Air Balloon. She
received an excellent education at Sonoma State University, studying
film theory with Peter Scarlet and working every spare minute on
productions. Major Feature Films took her to Montana, Kansas, Florida
and other rather elegant locations, but her call to breed stopped all
that. After squeaking out two amazing children, she is back in the
saddle, working whenever she can. During the breeding years she
produced award-winning equity theatre for the Olympic Arts Festival and
her own companies, The Encino Playhouse and Gold Coast Plays. Her
original works have been presented at the TaperLab, Covent Garden in
London, and many other venues including the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts
Plaza. She created Arts Ed at The Granada as the Director of Education
for the Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts and was Director
of Development for the Arts at California Lutheran University. She recently worked as the Capital Campaign Coordinator for the Ventura County
Community Foundation's Nonprofit Center, and Deputy Director for the New West Symphony. She has
served as the Chair of the California Alliance for Arts Education (a
non-profit organization that lobbies to provide education in all the
arts for every child), The Ventura County Arts Council, The Social
Justice Fund for Ventura County and the City of Thousand Oaks Arts
Commission. She also served on the Board of Governors for the Thousand
Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and the Arts Council of the Conejo Valley. By day she is the Managing Director of Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a professional Equity Theatre Company in Topanga. By night she serves on the Cultural Affairs Commission for the City of Simi Valley and on the Board of Directors for Association of Fundraising Professionals. When she is not running Gold Coast Theatre Conservatory and teaching theatre to all kinds of young people, including those with autism, Stephanie can often be seen having tea with bears.