Stephanie Fybel

Stephanie Fybel is a Los Angeles-based theater educator, director, and playwright. She serves as the Theatre Department Chair at Wildwood School, a progressive private school in West Los Angeles, where she has been a driving force in shaping a dynamic and inclusive theater program. Her debut play, "Threshold", was named a semi-finalist at the Seven Devils New Play Foundry 2026, and is currently a finalist at another prestigious playwriting festival (TBA). Her adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector" is being produced at schools in Los Angeles and Boston and is available for licensing.

Stephanie Fybel is a Los Angeles-based theater educator, director, and playwright. She serves as the Theatre Department Chair at Wildwood School, a progressive private school in West Los Angeles, where she has been a driving force in shaping a dynamic and inclusive theater program. Her debut play, "Threshold", was named a semi-finalist at the Seven Devils New Play Foundry 2026, and is currently a finalist at another prestigious playwriting festival (TBA). Her adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector" is being produced at schools in Los Angeles and Boston and is available for licensing.

Scripts

Threshold

by Stephanie Fybel

Cast Size
8
Genre
drama

Cancer is killing Justice David Lewin, but his morphine-blurred slide toward death keeps bringing his ancestors back to life. As his family keeps vigil, his parents return as the young refugees they once were, pulling him into the history that shaped his life's work and his lifelong questions about justice.

Cancer is killing Justice David Lewin, but his morphine-blurred slide toward death keeps bringing his ancestors back to life. As his family keeps vigil, his parents return as the young refugees they once were, pulling him into the history that shaped his life's work and his lifelong questions about justice.

The Government Inspector (adaptation/abridged edition)

by Stephanie Fybel

Cast Size
16—22
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
farce,
period

This abridged adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's savage masterpiece of corruption, vanity, and spectacular self-delusion is streamlined to 75–90 minutes without losing a single laugh. A corrupt Russian town is thrown into panic when the Governor learns a Government Inspector is traveling incognito through the district. The officials scramble to hide their crimes and cover each other in blame, while at the local Inn...

This abridged adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's savage masterpiece of corruption, vanity, and spectacular self-delusion is streamlined to 75–90 minutes without losing a single laugh. A corrupt Russian town is thrown into panic when the Governor learns a Government Inspector is traveling incognito through the district. The officials scramble to hide their crimes and cover each other in blame, while at the local Inn, a broke young clerk from St. Petersburg named Khlestakov is one unpaid bill away from jail. When the Governor mistakes Khlestakov for the dreaded Inspector, Khlestakov stumbles into the con without quite meaning to and milks it for everything it's worth. Bribes are accepted, the Governor's wife and daughter compete shamelessly for his attention, and the townspeople seize their chance for revenge.

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Kafka at the Café Savoy (in development)

by Stephanie Fybel

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
period

In the crumbling back-alley theaters of Prague, Franz Kafka falls helplessly in love: with a traveling Yiddish troupe, their dying art form, and the identity he'd spent his whole life running from.

In the crumbling back-alley theaters of Prague, Franz Kafka falls helplessly in love: with a traveling Yiddish troupe, their dying art form, and the identity he'd spent his whole life running from.