Stefan Novinski is a freelance director based in Los Angeles.  Recent credits: A Little Night Music starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Mark Jacoby and Terri Ralston at South Coast Repertory; Nighthawks for Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, J.O.B. the Hip-Hopera in Los Angeles and at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (LA Weekly and LA Drama Critics Circle nominations for Best Direction and Best Musical), The Map Maker’s Sorrow (Summer Play Festival, NYC); Wreckage by Caridad Svitch for New Dramatists, Medea for the Theatre @ Boston Court; Around The World in 80 Days adapted by Mark Brown at The Colony Theatre; Sideways Stories at South Coast Repertory; Skin of Our Teeth at the Evidence Room (LA Weekly Award, Best Revival 2003) and at the Open Fist Theatre Company: The Time of Your Life; Cosmonaut's Last Message… (LA Weekly Awards for Direction and Best Production 2003); As I Lay Dying (LA Times Critic's Pick) and Fen (Garland Award for Direction).

Prior to arriving in Los Angeles, Stefan served as the Associate Producer of the Big D Festival of the Unexpected at the Dallas Theatre Center which produced new works by artists such as Chay Yew, Len Jenkin, Naomi Iizuka, Eric Ehn and Octavio Solis

He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of California, San Diego