Stephen Graf, Summer Theatre Intern

Stephen Graf, originally from Wind Gap, PA, is a rising senior at Swarthmore College, where he majors in theater with minors in interpretation theory and linguistics. During his time at Swarthmore, he has performed in productions of such shows as The Wild Party, Old Times, Innocence, Spring Awakening, Merma Never Dies, The Odd Couple, and Fools. Also at college, Stephen has created several solo and group performance pieces, including Shock and Guffaw, a piece about humor and agency, and i want it all, a piece comprised of 12 mini-scenes about sexuality. Stephen is a Sexual Health Counselor, a dancer and choreographer in Rhythm N Motion, a dance group devoted to the music and dance of the African Diaspora, and a co-organizer of the Queer-Straight Alliance.

Last summer, Stephen was an administrative and artistic intern at Dixon Place, where he helped to coordinate a queer theater festival entitled HOT! The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture. He will be spending the summer of 2008 in NYC doing research and dramaturgy work for a solo piece he will be performing next year about race and whiteness, along with being Freedom Train's Summer Theatre Intern.