Stephanie Bissonnette, a famous stage choreographer, died on December 17 at the age of 32. She is best known for her role in the hit musical Mean Girls. The musical’s official social media website paid tribute to her saying:
“She brought joy and camaraderie to our theater, inspired us with her fighting spirit and courage, and adorned our stage with the most powerful talent that Broadway has ever seen.”
Bissonnette was previously diagnosed with medulloblastoma, one of the most common types of brain tumors. However, since her medical history is now available, it is uncertain whether she had a hand in her death.
Equity mourns the passing of member Stephanie Bissonnette. A talented dancer and choreographer, Stephanie is a workers rights activist who stood with her Equity colleagues in the Lab Rat 2019 campaign. Her energy and spirit. it will be missed. pic.twitter.com/NiRUNCuEYn
– Actor’s Equity (@ActorsEquity) December 19, 2022
Stephanie Bissonnette has also appeared in documentaries and music videos.
Stephanie Bissonnette graduated from Point Pak University Conservatory of Performing Arts on October 26, 1990. She later became a choreographer. She has been a choreographer for The Muny, Riverside Theatre, Seven Angels Theater and Shakespeare Theater Company. She was cast as Dawn Schweitzer in the musical Mean Girls while it was still in development. Ensemble, a documentary about Bissonnette, will be released in 2020. She also appears in Keith Urban’s Never Comein’ Down music video.
In early 2019, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she had surgery in February of that year. She found out she had cancer a few days later and needed six weeks of treatment at a facility in New York. Therapy was scheduled for five days per week and she had to take a nine-month break from performing. As SurvivorNet reports, she believes she will never be able to dance again and the time between surgery and radiation therapy has been the hardest for her. She stated:
“I almost feel worse because I just want to start to finish. So I just stayed in the room, sadly, for a month. It was not a happy moment. Obviously I cried a lot. I was worried. My career seems to be coming to an end. I began to wonder, “What would I do if I couldn’t do this job anymore?”
After recovering, she and the rest of the Mean Girls cast celebrated the one-day anniversary of her surgery in 2020. Stephanie Bissonnette’s survivors include undisclosed family members. reveal name.
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