Stephen Ochsner is a New York-based actor, director and teacher. As a human being he was born and raised in Colorado. As an actor, he grew up in Moscow.After studying at the Moscow Art Theatre, he became a resident artist at the Meyerhold Theatre Centre and School of Dramatic Art. Stephen performed a solo performance of Ivan Vyrypaev’s The Maxims of Panteley Karmanov in three languages and six countries. Stephen is widely known as Kostya in the series Chicks. In 2024, Stephen was awarded a Luciel Lortel Award for his work in the ensemble of Our Class at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Teaching has taken him to Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. With a passion for movement and ensemble training, Stephen has led coaching sessions and workshops at institutions across Eastern Europe and Germany. As founding artistic director of Safe Theatre, an avant-garde oral tradition theatre company, Stephen has directed over 15 productions, including Bull n’ Birds at Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent.