Stephanie Sanditz is a talented writer/director, actress, and producer who was born and raised in Broken Heart, Missouri. She gained recognition for her feature screenplay, Broken Heart, which won a Tribeca Film Institute All-Access Award for New Voices in Screenwriting.
Sanditz sold her original pilot, Pyramid, to FX, with Rob McElhenney executive producing. She also sold an autobiographical dramedy series to Mila Kunis' Production Company, Orchard Farms, and ABC Signature Studios.
She wrote, starred in, and produced the pilot, The High Life, which won the Best Pilot and Best Actress awards in the IMDB Independent Shorts festival and the We Make Movies International and Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festivals.
Sanditz was the creator, writer, and showrunner of the series, Chat. Like. Love, for Dreamworks' AwesomenessTV, and wrote two episodes of the WGA and Emmy Award-nominated series, Love Daily, for Hulu and Verizon's Go-90.
On the feature side, she optioned Dance Party, a body-positive dance-comedy she co-wrote with Nate Gabaeff, to AGC Studios with Queen Latifah attached to star and produce.
Sanditz has adapted over 7 books to feature films, including best-selling religious comedy, God on a Harley, for Mimi Gitlin, sexy romance, Beautiful Bastard, for Constantin Films and Impact Pictures, and Infernal Devices, the epic prequel trilogy to the Mortal Instruments franchise released worldwide for Screen Gems and Sony.
She has also produced, written, and starred in a short film, Snuggle Bunny, which was showcased by Funny or Die and purchased by Tribeca Film's Tribeca Picture Show.
Sanditz is currently developing several projects, including comedy-action feature, HellWood, action-romance film development, and television series, Show Me States, exploring the fascinating world of riverboat gambling.
As an actress, she has starred in several films and TV shows, including Amazon series 37 Problems, Steve Allrich's and LA Film Festival Favorite, noire film, Blind Date, and Miramax's blockbuster, Kate & Leopold.
Sanditz actively raises money for Women's Reproductive health and for the St. Louis Library ForWord Fund Literacy Foundation, which she helped build in response to the Ferguson riots.
She is a Top Dean's Honor Scholar Graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
