Stephanie Maxwell
Stephanie Maxwell is a professor in the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Her teaching includes courses in film, video and animation production (including experimental processes) and the history of animation. She has curated and presented film programs internationally and taught abroad on several occasions. Ms. Maxwell has been producing her unusual animated works for over 15 years. Her award-winning work has been shown at international film, multimedia, and television programs and festivals.
On these works, Maxwell collaborated with composer Michaela Eremiasova. Born in Prague, Eremiasova is pursuing a PhD in composition at the Eastman School of Music and previously studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Michaela co-orchestrated the opera West-The Future of the American Musical Theater by Broadway composer Charles Strouse (commissioned by the Hanson Institute for American Music). She has received other commissions as well, most notably for ensembles including the Novus Trombone Quartet, Russell Scarbrough’s Big Band, Eastman Trombone Choir, and the Beohmler Foundation. Michaela has also composed music for film and animation works, including Cat Ashworth’s documentary Beating the Biological Clock and the animated opera Car Crash Opera by Skip Battaglia.