Independent Writers' Caucus
Stephen Nolly
Sherice Dugan
Manager | Sandstone Artists
m: (818) 681-8013
e: sherice@sandstoneartists.com
Stephen Nolly is a biracial, Japanese/Jewish Air Force brat who cut his teeth in New York’s theater scene. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he was a resident artist at TriBeCa’s Flea Theater (Drama Desk, OBIE Award). After his start in downtown theater, Stephen found that the film & television world was lacking the diversity of stories that he wanted to tell - and he realized he was the only person suited to tell them.
Stephen is currently a Fellow at the RespectAbility Entertainment Lab, a Finalist for the Paramount Writers Mentorship and the Warner Brothers Writers’ Workshop Finalist, was accepted into Soho House Script House Lab (with Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang), received the CA Individual Artist Fellowship, won the Thriller Genre in the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, and been included on The Naughty List, and The Originals Bureau. His scripts have advanced at the Austin Film Festival, Sundance Episodic & Feature Labs, Slamdance, PAGE, and most recently been a Finalist for Film Pipeline, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, and the Circle of Confusion Discovery Fellowship.
Stephen enjoys high-concept, socially conscious stories, is an amateur locksmith, dabbles in horology (watchmaking), writing musical theater, was a competitive international ballroom dancer, and a member of Mensa.
Honors & Awards
Fellow - RespectAbility Entertainment Lab - 2024
Finalist - Paramount Writers Mentorship - HOWLIE - 2022
Finalist - Warner Bros. Writers Workshop - CHILMARK, HOWLIE - 2020. 2021
non-WGA
Male, BIPOC, Middle Eastern, Asian, Multi-Ethnic, Disabled, 40+
HOWLIE
(Hourlong Teen Genre Pilot, Point Break x The Lost Boys)
When half-Asian HANNAH arrives in Maui, she longs to be a legendary monster hunter like her father. But when she starts showing signs of lycanthropy, she discovers - she’s not a teenager turning into a werewolf. She’s a wolf that’s been living the past 16 years as a human.
CUBA LIBRE
(Hourlong Period Action Pilot, Mad Men x Narcos)
LOGLINE: Between 1968 and 1972, more than 130 aircraft were hijacked, mostly to Havana, which led to the creation of the federal Sky Marshal program and culminated on November 24, 1971 with the hijacking of a Boeing 727 by man many believe to be a disavowed government agent: DB Cooper.
BURAKU
(Hourlong Samurai/Yakuza Crime Pilot, Shogun x Tokyo Vice)
LOGLINE: An assassin escapes Edo-era Japan’s civil war and his family’s “untouchable” caste by joining the American Confederacy, but his legacy catches up with his modern-day descendant, who seeks to cure his own misfortune amidst Tokyo’s criminal underworld.
Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Procedural, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series
Male, BIPOC, Middle Eastern, Asian, Multi-Ethnic, Disabled, 40+
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