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Stasi Schaeffer

Stasi Schaeffer (courtesy of the artist)

Stasi is a Theatre and Opera Director who works in the United Kingdom and the United States. Based in Glasgow, Scotland she works internationally on new works, musicals and opera (both new and in the repertoire). With her work she is interested in illuminating our world and understanding our place in it.

Directing credits include: The Power of 5 (Scottish Ensemble),A Brief Archaeology of Love (Traverse), Lesbos (Tramway), Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, University of Delaware, Lotos Club-NYC), Jan Tait and the Bear (Ensemble Thing) , Lifelines (Traverse Theatre), Whingeing Women (King’s Theatre, Glasgow), 51 Shades of Maggie (Revival Director-Scotland tour), One Day This Will Be Long Ago, Toi Toi Toi (Opera Breve), I Love You in Danish, The Day I Found the Blues, Face-Morag, Face-Isobel (also with Mull Theatre), Butterfly, It’s Only Words, The Friends of Miss Dorian Gray, Butterfly Kiss, Loyalty/Operation Phantom Fury, Serov’s People (Oran Mor), Home Free (Finborough Theatre), The Fragmented Life of Dorothy Lawrence (co-director-RCS, Cockpit Theatre, Traverse), Lessons with Chopin (Edinburgh Fringe), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (UK Premiere, The Arches), God of Soho (Tron, Hampstead, Traverse), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Sensory Theatre-Arches, Glasgow), Marriage a la Mode (Arches, Glasgow), Odysseus Swims for It (NY premiere), Topdog/Underdog, Rocky Horror Show (303 Collective-MI).

Upcoming: Flora (Scottish Tour 2026) She was a Staff Director with the Royal Opera House and Scottish Opera. Stasi holds a MA in Classical and Contemporary Text-Directing from RSAMD, a BFA from Boston University. She is Artistic Director of Lucid Dream Arts.