Australian born Judith Stevens-Ly has directed and nurtured new plays as Artistic Director of the Hysterick Theatre Company in Tokyo, as a director at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Looking Glass Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, HERE Arts Center, Manhattan Theatre Source, Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City, the New York and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals and at BRIC in Brooklyn. She has been honored as an Invited Featured Artist for the Last Frontier Playwright’s Conference in Alaska for the past four years and is currently a member of its National Advisory Board. Since 2007 Judith has been an invited script advisor for the New York Musical Festival. She served as Associate Artistic Director for the First Look Theatre Company at the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, directing new works and producing festivals of new works by the Master Degree program candidates. She has also taught the Graduate Playwrighting Lab and Directing for Playwrights in this program.

She is currently involved with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival as a director, dramaturg, and respondent for the New Plays Program and has been invited as guest respondent and judge for directing and classical acting awards at the Region III Festival in Michigan in 2010 and 2011. In March 2008 she directed the nationally reviewed premiere of Anton’s Women by Donna Banicevich Gera at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand. As Executive Creative Director of Loose Change Productions as director and co-producer, took the new play Couples Counseling by Carey Lovelace to the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to sold out houses. In 2011 she has been a Feature Guest Artist, in the areas of directing and playwrighting, at the Kennedy Centre American College Festival in Michigan and at the Mississippi Theatre Asociation Annual Festival, Mississippi, and directed for Centenary Stages Women's Playwright Series.