Stefanie attended undergrad at
Eastern Nazarene College in
Boston, receiving a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre and Minoring in History. She starred in several productions including
Lisa Loomer's Bocon and
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Additionally, DeLeo studied playwriting and directing, and in 2004 she directed the main stage production of
The Diary of Anne Frank which won the
Moss Hart Award in 2004 for best play of the 2003-2004 theatre season. In 2005, DeLeo's first play
Worth a Thousand Words was produced in
Port Jefferson,
New York at
Theatre Three. That same play was later published. In 2005 she moved to New York City to pursue a master's degree in Educational Theatre at
New York University. DeLeo earned her Master's in 2006. Her second play, ''Jezebel's Apple'' was performed at the
Bowery Ballroom in
Manhattan. In 2006, Stefanie wrote her novel,
Cry My Safari. In 2007, DeLeo joined the
Peace Corps and relocated to
South Africa. She was stationed in the small, remote farming town of
Kuruman in the
Northern Cape. While there, DeLeo founded an interracial theatre group with a township school that performed original pieces all over the
Northern Cape. Her poem was a tongue-in-cheek twist on the classic poem, where it served as an allegory to the
Holocaust. In 2012, her play,
Answer the Question, Iris receives its first of many productions throughout the US. In 2014, DeLeo relocated to
Nashville, Tennessee. While in Nashville, she was cast in the show Alien at
The Arts at Center Street DeLeo began teaching high school English, where she is teaching students about her own passion of writing and performing. DeLeo was also an invited author to appear at , one of Europe's biggest Comic Cons in October 2014 where friend,
Jennifer Cihi, also appeared as a guest singer. On January 13 and 14, 2018, Stefanie DeLeo became the 1st accomplished writer invited to be a guest at The Asian Karaoke Idol Invitational's TAKII 24 ~The Power Of Love~ held at The Rotunda. DeLeo has since appeared in dozens of anime and comic conventions all over the US, Canada and Europe. In 2017, DeLeo was published in
Chicken Soup for the Soul. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable - In 2017, she appeared as an airport patron and MIT student in episode 119 of the new
MacGyver television show. DeLeo has traveled extensively throughout the world and uses these experiences to enhance her writing. ==Written works==