Photo of Stephanie Lim (Asian person with shoulder-length straight black hair), smiling and wearing a plaid green button-up shirt, standing outside in front of a metal grate.
Photo of Stephanie Lim (Asian person with shoulder-length straight black hair), smiling and wearing black-rimmed glasses and a navy blue blazer with a dark blue "Oxford Comma" t-shirt underneath, standing outside in front of a grey brick wall.

Stephanie Lim (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based educator, scholar, and dramaturg.

Her research focuses on contemporary American musical theatre, with specific interests in Deaf and disability studies and the inclusion of American Sign Language and Deaf culture in performances of popular music across stage and screen. Stephanie earned her PhD in Drama & Theatre from UC Irvine and her BA and MA in English from California State University, Northridge.

As a professor, Stephanie is dedicated to encouraging curiosity, critical thought, and collaborative learning amongst students. She works as a lecturer in the English, Theatre, Queer Studies, and Academic First-Year Experiences departments at CSU Northridge, teaching courses on writing and research, theatre history, public speaking, pop culture, and college success. She is also a General Education and Graduate Programs faculty member at AMDA College of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles campus, where she teaches academic writing courses and works as a Writing Lab coach.

Her dramaturgical work includes productions with East West Players (Assassins), Chance Theater (Fun Home), UC Irvine (favorite credits: Chess and Into the Woods), as well as supporting New Cosmopolitan Ensemble’s New Queer Works’ development series and serving as a script reader for the San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival. Recent publications appear in Studies in Musical Theatre; Theatre Annual; Hamilton, History and Hip-Hop: Essays on An American Musical (McFarland); and Contemporary British Musicals: Out of the Darkness (Methuen Drama).

Stephanie is a founding member of and current Technology Specialist for the Disability, Theatre, and Performance (DTaP) focus group of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). She serves as the Book Review Editor for Journal of American Drama & Theatre (JADT) and as Director of Communication & Finance for Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). She is the incoming Membership and Outreach Coordinator for Music Theatre Dance Association (MTDA).

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