Stephen Montagna is an actor/director, multi-media communications consultant, anti-violence educator, and staunch promoter of progressive values; he is committed to social justice and is a vocal ally to women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQia community.

A native of Massachusetts, Stephen received his MFA in Acting at the UW-Madison.

For more than thirty-three years, he has been a part of the violence prevention movement. Between 1991 and 2014, he devoted countless hours to maintaining the men’s work begun in 1983 by Men Stopping Rape, Inc. Subsequently, he has been on staff at the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, part of the Safety Net Project at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and briefly worked as the Director of Community Engagement and Prevention Education for Project SAGE (formerly Women’s Support Services) in northwest Connecticut.

During his tenure in the movement, he has presented and co-presented hundreds of workshops at a variety of locations, including the UW-Madison and Edgewood College campuses, high school auditoriums and classrooms, juvenile detention centers, half-way houses, public school programs, and regional and national trainings. He has spoken at “Take Back the Night” events in Madison, at UW Steven’s Point, and at UW Parkside, assisted in Peer Educator Trainings, sat on planning committees for Sexual Assault Awareness Month and The DELTA Project (a CDC funded effort focused on prevention work with boys), and had an essay published in the anthology Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Activism, and Equality.

In 2004, Stephen had the pleasure of being a part of the UW-Madison’s Office for Equity & Diversity (OED) Leadership Institute (LI); he was invited back to be a co-facilitator for the 2007-08 academic year. Subsequently, the OED hired him as a freelance consultant on two communications projects – a brochure and display case, both of which can be viewed on the Montyland Productions web site. Then, from 2016–2020 he was part of the staff at the Learning Communities for Institutional Change & Excellence (LCICE), part of the UW-Madison Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement.

For seven years, Stephen worked as the Media Specialist at the UW Center for Women’s Health Research, one of twenty National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health funded by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health. He also briefly worked for Epic Systems in Verona, WI.