“Coming to America: Transformations” Depicts Foreign-born Women’s Response to Life in America

PULLMAN, Wash. – The Visual, Performing and Literary Arts Committee at Washington State University will present Stephanie Satie Nov. 9 as she performs her play that depicts women with lives transformed by events in their native countries and after their arrival in America.

The play is set for 7:30 p.m. in Daggy Hall’s Jones Theatre. Admission is Free

“Coming to America: Transformations,” written and performed by Satie, depicts a gallery of women whose lives have been transformed, first by extraordinary events in their birth countries of El Salvador, Afghanistan, Armenia, Cambodia, Iran, India, the former Yugoslavia and Russia, and again by their response to America as they acclimate to life in Southern California. 

One Los Angeles Times critic described Satie’s performance as, “Rapid fire dialogue…humor collides with tragedy…Her portraits ring with weight and authority.”

A Brooklyn native, Satie studied ballet and modern dance and performed on and off Broadway, in summer stock and with small dance companies. She traded in her dance shoes to study acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. She has appeared in both on and off-Broadway productions, on national tours and in regional theatres, and in plays ranging from those of Shakespeare to Neil Simon. Satie earned a master’s degree in literature after moving to Los Angeles, where she wrote dance reviews and studied Russian. Her TV appearances include “The Wonder Years” as Ida Pfeiffer (Paul’s mom) and on “The Practice,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” “General Hospital,” “All My Children” and many soaps operas and courtroom dramas.

This play is presented with in-kind support from the WSU Theatre Program.