News - Navida Stein

Click here to read an interview of Navida about “Singing the Songs of Harold Arlen” in StageBuddy

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

PAST APPEARANCES (selected)

UPDATE! BLESSED has been an official selection, a finalist or won for best short film in both national and international film festivals in 2021 and 2022.

Shot another short film (SAG-AFTRA Short Film Agreement) titled BLESSED written by Navida Stein. Directed by David Chai. Director of Photography is Alexander Riback. With Navida Stein and Janelle Meghan. Sarah Pratt, a detective in the Domestic Violence Unit tries to help Beata Borkowski, an abused woman found unconscious on her front steps in the dead of winter. Through their brief encounter, Detective Pratt’s own history is mirrored.

The Escape, August 2019 The Escape, a short SAG-AFTRA film directed & produced by Jessica Ammirati (Going to Tahiti Productions). Shot on location in Harkness State Park near Waterford CT. A sweet magical story about the struggles of being an artist. I play an ethereal woman whose mysterious presence might be helping others find their happiness.

Saturday June 22, 2019 @ 11:00am

FREE! Storytelling & Music!
Hans Christian Anderson Statue
Conservatory Pond (near East 72nd Street & Fifth Avenue)
Central Park
New York, NY

Too Much Talking
Join Miss Navida at the Hans Christian Andersen Statue for the fun story Too Much Talking! Plus a few songs and lots of audience participation. Joining Miss Navida are storytellers Julia Morris & Robin Bady. Hope to see you there! For kids ages 3-10. Rain or shine. FREE!

May 2-25, 2019 @ various times
Astoria Performing Arts Center
21-12 30th Road
Astoria, NY 1110
718-706-5750
Caroline, or Change

Playing Grandma Gellman, my first grandma role since doing Grandma Tzeitel in Fiddler when I was 19!

May 2019 In the advanced sound design class at New York University taught by sound designers Danny Erdberg and Mark Bennett, I was delighted to portray the main character of Emily Stilson, a stroke victim who struggles to recover her ability to speak in scenes from Wings by Arthur Kopit in collaboration with their students’ final sound design projects.

Saturday April 13, 2019 @ 11:00am
FREE! Storytelling & Music!
Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 779-3587

STORYTELLING at SCANDINAVIA HOUSE

Join Miss Navida at the beautiful Scandinavia House for some delightful stories & songs from Sweden & Norway including The Runaway Pancake! Plus lots of audience participation. Joining Miss Navida is storyteller Joy Kelly Smith! Hope to see you there! For kids ages 3-10. FREE!

Saturday December 8, 2018 @ 3:15pm new-york-public-library
New York Public Library : Jefferson Market
425 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011
(212) 243-4334

The Willa Cather Salon
The Willa Cather Salon is a new play with music written by Navida Stein and adapted from Willa Cather’s first short stories published in early 20th century magazines. In this reading of The Willa Cather Salon the stories are told by a cast of actor/singer/storytellers and woven together with vocal and instrumental music from the turn of last century. These stories explore the need to belong and create, the transformative power of music and the desire for beauty in a brutal world; all themes Willa Cather continually explored throughout her life’s work. As an adult, Willa Cather made New York City her home and lived for many years at 5 Bank Street in Greenwich Village, right around the corner from Jefferson Market Library, with her lifelong companion, Edith Lewis. Miss Cather would hold very popular salons on Friday afternoons; writers, musicians, actors and opera singers would come for tea, conversation and share their art. Willa Cather (1873-1947) is an American writer best known for her novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her World War I novel One of Ours.

September 12 – October 7, 2018 @ various times
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
50 East Merrimack Street
Lowell, MA 01852

Native Gardens
Written by Karen Zacarías. Directed by Giovanna Sardelli. A millennial, Latinx couple moves in next door to a white, baby boomer couple in Karen Zacarías’ topical new comedy. After some good-natured ribbing over gardening styles––traditional designs versus the eco-friendlier native plants––the couples find themselves at odds over an unexpected property line dispute. A dispute that explodes into a host of verbal jabs and blows over race, culture, privilege, and the meaning of neighborly behavior.

Navida appears in the role of the smart no-nonsense Republican Lockheed-Martin defense contractor Virginia Butley.

Come up to New England, enjoy the fall foliage, and see this funny and perceptive play!

Monday February 26, 2018 @ 7:00pm
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
(in the Parish House)
308 West 46^th Street
New York, NY 10036

Secrets of a Watchful Sparrow: Daddy, Me & OCD

Written and performed by Navida Stein. Directed by Cynthia Dillon. A daughter learns to speak the truth, face fear, let go of her vigilance and forgive. Reception to follow.

“I watch, and am a sparrow alone …” Psalm 102

Sunday September 10, 2017 @ 2:00pm
Primary Stages
307 West 38^th Street
Suite 1510
New York, NY 10018
(212) 840-9705 ext.206

All Catherine, an absurd comedy by Marina Barry. Directed by Cynthia Dillon.
Staged Reading/Backers Audition of a new play

Thursday July 27, 2017 @ 3:30pm
FREE! Making Mandala Mobiles new-york-public-library
New York Public Library : New Dorp
309 New Dorp Lane
Staten Island, NY 10306
(718) 351-2977

Planting the Seeds of Peace
A NYPL Summer Reading Program! This workshop combines art making and collected words to create a mandala mobile. Mandalas are ancient symbols of unity and peace. Mandalas are found all around us in art, architecture and nature. The act of creating or coloring a mandala quiets the mind and strengthens concentration. Materials used include paper, yarn, glue and colored pencils. Each child will create their own single mandala to take home. Best for ages 8 to 14 year olds. FREE!

Friday July 14, 2017 @ 3:00pm
FREE! Storytelling & Art Making! new-york-public-library
New York Public Library : Pelham Bay
3060 Middletown Road
Bronx, NY 10461
(718) 792-6744

The Boy Who Cried Wolf!
A NYPL Summer Reading Program! A shepherd boy is SO BORED taking care of the sheep, until he gets an idea that “isn’t right, isn’t true, but I’m going to do it, anyway”. Using music, movement, and group storytelling techniques, children will sing songs, shake rhythm instruments, jump, hop, leap and creep as Miss Navida plays the piano. Then together we’ll tell the Aesop’s fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, using gesture, dialogue, song and character work as participants play the shepherd, the sheep, the townspeople and of course the wolf. The children will make a Wolf Stick Puppet from a paper plate, tissue paper and wiggly eyes. Best for children ages 4 and older. FREE!

Thursday July 13, 2017 @ 3:30pm
FREE! Storytelling & Art Making! new-york-public-library
New York Public Library : Morrisania
610 East 169th Street
Bronx, NY 10456
(718) 589-9268

Creating Crocodille Puppets
A NYPL Summer Reading Program! Children will create their own Crocodile Arm Puppets using pastels, glue and a paper folding technique. We will learn the Miss Navida song When I Take a Walk with my Crocodile and take our newly made crocodiles for a walk. We will end with everyone helping to tell the story Crocodile Beat. Limited to 20 participants only. Best for ages 4 and older. FREE!

Tuesday July 11, 2017 @ 3:30pm
FREE! Storytelling & Art Making! new-york-public-library
New York Public Library : Van Corlandt
3874 Sedgwick Avenue
Bronx, NY 10463
(718) 543-5150

Fish Stories, Songs & Fish Mobiles
A NYPL Summer Reading Program! Children will create their own Fish Mobiles using pastels, heavy paper, tissue paper, glue, string and googly eyes. We will sing the song 5 Little Fishies and take our fish for a swim. For inspiration, we will read the book Fish Eyes, Swimmy and The 3 Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark. Limited to 20 participants only. Best for ages 4 and older. FREE!

STORYTELLING! “The Old Woman and the Pumpkin” FREE!

Saturday July 1, 2017 @ 11:00am
Hans Christian Anderson Statue “The Ugly Duckling”
Conservatory Pond (near East 72nd Street & Fifth Avenue)
Central Park
New York, NY

STORYTELLING! We’re all in this Together! FREE!

Friday June 30, 2017 @ 3:00pm
New York Public Library Allerton
2740 Barnes Avenue
Bronx, NY 10467
(718) 881-4240

Soloist for an all Harold Arlen program with the New York City Community Chorus

Sunday June 18, 2017 @ 4:00pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue at 28th Street
New York, NY

STORYTELLING! The Boy Who Cried Wolf FREE!

Tuesday February 21, 2017 @ 3:30pm
New York Public Library Chatham Square
33 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002
(212) 964-6598

Narrator for Stacia Newcomb’s variety show SH!T SHOW

Friday January 13, 2017 @ 9:30pm
Triad Theater
158 West 72^nd Street
New York, NY 10023

Thursday November 17, 2016 @ 3:30pm
New York Public Library Tremont Branch
1866 Washington Avenue
Bronx, NY, 10457
(718) 299-5177

Seasons Changing Falling Leaves
Children will create a fall collage using pastels/crayons, stencils, glue, a little bit of glitter & a real leaf. Using group storytelling techniques, we will create a forest. Then we will “open the gallery” and talk about our art. We will work with the stories Leaf Jumpers, We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt and/or Leaves. Best for ages 5 and older. Limit to 20 participants.

Saturday November 12, 2016 @ 11:00am
Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 779-3587

Brave and Clever! STORYTELLING at SCANDINAVIA HOUSE
Storytellers Navida Stein and Julia Morris weave music, song, and chant into stories from Sweden and Finland including how Brave Pippi Longstocking thwarts some burglars, how Mikko the Fox got a white tip on his tail and how The Clever Copper Pot saves the day.

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