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Athena Stevens

ATHENA STEVENS

  
Nationality:    British
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An actor, writer, and director, Athena Stevens has been working in the arts and entertainment sector for over a decade. Having made repeated collaborations with artists from the BBC, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Globe Theatre, IdeasTap, and others, she draws on an extensive and established network. Athena is also an award winning stand up comedian and passionate human rights activist. She has worked on efforts for fair housing, mainstreaming education, small business accessibility, and a variety of political campaigns. Stevens additionally is as an advisor to Transport for London and was recently named as one of the 150 People Impacting the London Underground. Raised with a highly international upbringing, she has attended RADA and received a MA in creative entrepreneurship at the Univeristy of East Anglia. In 2011 she made her West End debut both as an actress and as a playwright in The Amazing Vancetti Sisters which received several five star reviews. Additionally, she runs the blog Never Walked in High Heels and in 2012 her first book, Beauty Unsuspected, was published. Her written work often explores issues surrounding autonomy and self determination as well as independence. She sees herself as a mainstream artist and her performances, pieces, and interaction serve to entertain as well as inspire the general public rather than special interest groups. Using an ever expanding network for professional and collaborative artist, Athena's work on stage, screen, and on the page is quickly becoming recognizable both in the US and UK. Athena was born with athetoid cerebral palsy.

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below is a list of Athena Stevens's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Amazing Vancetti Sisters, The         Detours Ahead         Schism

Amazing Vancetti Sisters, The

Synopsis:
Magic isn't when people disappear... it's when they come back. In a cramped desert house, two sisters - once child performers in a disappearing act - meet for a deadly reckoning. Elisa is living a life of anonymity and illusion following the death of her father, star magician Vernon Vancetti. Jane, her worldly younger sister, arrives six months late for the funeral, sexually charged, and ready to pull a few surprises from her bag of tricks. Athena Stevens' first play examines two women living in a fragile world of suspended magic unable to cope with the memories of a childhood dominated by a pressure to perform.

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Dark Comedy, Thrille

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Detours Ahead

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Schism

Synopsis:
I never wanted to change, in case you didn't like it. Failed architect Harrison has plans to make tonight the last night of his life. What he doesn't need is Katherine, a young student with cerebral palsy, breaking into his house in her wheelchair begging for his help... As their chaotic first encounter turns into the beginning of a twenty year relationship, the unlikely couple grow to realise that they are capable of either building something great together - or absolutely destroying each other. Written and co-performed by acclaimed playwright with a disability Athena Stevens, Schism is the world premiere of a stunning new play about two people finding each other, and what happens when their dream becomes unrealistic and out of date.

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Play/Drama

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