Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Houston-based Stephanie Wittels Wachs is the author of best-selling memoir Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss, which Kirkus called a “penetrating story and powerful debut.” A theater director and well-known voice actor (appearing in countless anime series and movies), she also has a decade of experience as an arts educator. Wittels Wachs now sits on the Board of Directors of Rec Room Arts, a reputable performance space and national artist-residency program that she co-founded in memory of her late brother, Parks & Recreation comedian-writer-producer Harris Wittels. She co-created Lemonada with Jessica Cordova Kramer, who also lost her brother to addiction, because, Wittels Wachs says, “Community is a life jacket.”