Stephanie Sanditz is a writer/director as well as actress and producer, born and raised in Broken Heart, Missouri, the name of her feature screenplay that won a Tribeca Film Institute All-Access Award for New Voices in Screenwriting.

She sold original pilot, Pyramid, to FX, with Rob McElhenney (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) Executive Producing after which Tai Duncan and Mark Williams, (Co-creator and EP of Ozark) signed on to Produce as well.

She also sold an autobiographical dramedy series to Mila Kunis' Production Company, Orchard Farms, and ABC Signature Studios (HighFidelity, SMILF).

She then wrote, starred and produced pilot, The High Life, with EPS, Mary Rohlich (A-Typical, Identity Thief) Kimberly McCullough (Connors) and Shannon Riggs (Innocent Man) starring opposite Amy Landecker, (Transparent), Linda Purl, (The Office), Ron Perkins (Spiderman) and Jesse Garcia (Narcos) then won winning Best Pilot and Best Actress, in the IMDB Independent Shorts festival, and the We Make Movies International and Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festivals.

She was creator, writer and show-runner of series, Chat. Like. Love, for Dreamworks' AwesomenessTV, as well as writing two episodes of WGA and Emmy Award Nominated Series, Love Daily, for Hulu and Verizon's Go-90.

On the feature side, she recently optioned Dance Party, a body-positive dance-comedy she co-wrote with Nate Gabaeff (Loca), to AGC Studios (Moonfall) with Queen Latifah attached to star and produce..

She's also adapted over 7 books to feature films, including best-selling religious comedy, God on a Harley, for Mimi Gitlin (Thelma and Louise), sexy romance, Beautiful Bastard, for Constantin Films and Impact Pictures (Resident Evil) then optioned by Lionsgate, and Infernal Devices, the epic prequel trilogy to the Mortal Instruments franchise released worldwide for Screen Gems and Sony, before becoming Freeform's hit show, The ShadowHunters.

Other feature credits include adaptation of Stanley Tucci's celebrated Femme-fatale graphic novel, Shi, for Constantin Films, Cathy's Book for Germany's UFA Cinema (The Physician) and Meg Cabot's best-selling book series, The Mediator, for Greenestreet Films (Thank You For Smoking) then developed for TV with FreMantle Media (American Idol).

She also produced, wrote and starred in a short film, Snuggle Bunny, along with Zosia Mamet from HBO's Girls, which was showcased by Funny or Die and purchased by Tribeca Film's Tribeca Picture Show.

Projects in development include comedy-action feature, HellWood, she co-wrote with Carsten Lorenz (Independence Day), action-romance film development with Richard Wenk (The Equalizer, SouthPaw), Gotham International Film Festival Semi-Finalist Romance, Moving Picture, and television series, Show Me States, exploring the fascinating world of riverboat gambling.

As an actress she stars as the comedic sidekick, September, in Amazon series 37 Problems, which was also sold to Xfiniti, Elizabeth Banks' WhoHaHa and was accepted into the Tribeca Film Festivals New Media Program. Look out for her leading roles in Steve Allrich's and LA Film Festival Favorite, noire film, Blind Date, as the sardonic bartender in the world released college comedy, DisOrientation, as the evil 'Bombshell,' in Puppet Master X, troubled vixen in, Sweet Illusions, which premiered at The Cannes Film Festival, and crying on cue to Live Schreiber as Nurse Gretchen in Miramax's blockbuster, Kate & Leopold. TV credits include Time's Up, Jilted, Young and the Restless, Law & Order: Law & Order Criminal Intent, Comedy Central pilot, Amuse Bouche and her first role, on Stranger's With Candy with Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert.

She actively raises money fr Women's Reproductive health, as well as for the St. Louis Library ForWord Fund Literacy Foundation, which she helped build in response to the Ferguson riots, with her father and good friends, Beau Willimon (House of Cards) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men).

She is a Top Dean's Honor Scholar Graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

Her sister, Lisa Sanditz, is a successful painter.

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Stephanie Sanditz, Winner Best Pilot Golden State Film Festival

Actors George Basil and Creator Baron Schwartz with Director/Show Runner Stephanie Sanditz

Swole Mate - Director/Showrunner, Stephanie Sanditz with actor Rusty Joiner

Stephanie Sanditz in The High Life (2019)

Kiana Madeira, Ross Butler, and Matthew Noszka in Perfect Addiction (2023)

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