NAVIDA STEIN

Navida Stein is an award winning storyteller, actress, musician, and writer.  As an actress, Navida has worked Off-Broadway & regionally doing new plays, musicals, and Shakespeare. TV credits include Law & Order, spots for Nickelodeon and she has appeared in independent films and commercials. Navida’s one woman show URBAN ZEN won the 2012 United Solo Festival award for Best Non Fiction script.  As a storyteller, Navida tells stories from around the world in many places including the New York Public Libraries, the Hans Christian Anderson statue in Central Park, Scandinavia House, community centers, festivals and many schools.  She hass narrated Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals with Litha Symphony and collaborated/MC’d several interactive outreach family programs with The Chelsea Symphony (Peter and the Wolf) & the Queer Urban Orchestra (Mother Goose Suite) with conductor Julie Desbordes.  Recently, Navida performed the world premiere of Juliet’s Farewell by composer Bjorn Berkhout with QUO.    She has written plays, adaptations, the libretti for two musicals and an opera and regularly reviews for StageBuddy.com.  Navida is a dedicated teaching artist (aka Miss Navida), recipient of a 2014 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant and plays violin with the Queer Urban Orchestra and the 92nd Street Y Orchestra.  www.navidastein.com & www.missnavida.com