Stephanie Sinclaire

Stephanie Sinclaire (born February 28, 1954), also known as Stephanie Crawford, is a painter and director in theatre and film.

She was born Stephanie Anne Weiss in Boston, Massachusetts on February 28, 1954 to Harvard Law graduate and Naval officer Howard A Weiss and singer and painter Bernice Joan Smith. Her parents divorced and when she was three years old and her mother married Joseph DiLalla, a small band leader, who played with ‘Baby’ Rose Marie, Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong and others in Las Vegas and elsewhere, travelling continually around America. She is one of nine siblings.

In 1968 she attended Windsor Mountain High School in Lenox, Massachusetts, a utopian experiment that began in Europe. In 1972 she enrolled in the California College of Art and Craft in Oakland, California, where she studied literature with absurdist playwright Michael McClure and painting while working for Laurel Burch jewellery design. Siclaire married Matthew Eliot Kastin in 1980. They have one daughter, Katherine Kastin, a zoologist, actress and therapist.

In 1985 she married Daniel Frank Crawford, founder of The Kings Head Theatre, London. A painter and a poet at the time of their marriage, she became increasingly involved with the theatre, first as Literary Manager and then as Associate Artistic Director. During that time she assisted in the production of over 60 plays and musicals many of which were award-winning or transferred to London’s West End or Broadway.

She continued to paint, exhibit and curate exhibitions under the banner of Archangel Exhibitions. She has exhibited her paintings internationally and was curator of two international exhibitions in London, American's Abroad at Smith’s Gallery Covent Garden, London, examining the work of artists born or raised in America who had deeply influenced European culture such as Cy Twombly, Man Ray, Niki de Saint Phalle and others (catalogue by art historian Keith Wheldon) and The London Influence, an examination of International artists living in London including Susan Hiller, John Kirby, Rachel Whiteread and Jacqueline Moreau, at The Slaughterhouse Gallery, Smithfields, London.

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