Stephanie Sanditz

Stephanie Ann Sanditz was born and raised in Broken Heart, Missouri.After attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, earning a Dean's Honors BFA in both Writing and Acting, she cobbled together rent using different aliases to write Advice Columns and Bar Reviews. Then, after a brief stint studying dance in Indonesia, riding a motorcycle down the coast of Vietnam, acting in many plays and independent films, and touring with a circus, she decided to embrace her roots and write a screenplay about life growing up in the Midwest.That script, Broken Heart, MO, was a Tribeca Film Festival All Access Award recipient for New Voices in Screenwriting and is currently in development.After Tribeca, Stephanie launched her writing career. She recently adapted Christina Lauren's best-selling, Beautiful Bastard for Constantin Films and Impact Pictures (Resident Evil) Before that she was hired to adapt Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices, the epic prequel trilogy to the Mortal Instruments franchise released worldwide for Screen Gems, and Sony. Other feature credits include adaptation of femme-powered graphic novel, Shi, for Mimi Gitlin (Thelma & Louise) and Constantin Films, and Cathy's Book for UFA Cinema (The Physician).She wrote a feature of Meg Cabot's Best Selling book series and The Mediator for Greenestreet Films (Thank You For Smoking) and then developed it as a TV Series 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.Other projects in development include comedy-action flick Star Power with Carsten Lorenz (Independence Day 2, 3), neo-noire rom-com, Moving Picture, which was a Gotham International Film Festival Semi-Finalist, and television series, Show Me States, exploring the fascinating world of riverboat gambling.As an actress she is currently filming a comedic series 37 Problem by Lisa Ebersole (Brother) and Produced by Tom Nunan (Crash). Look out for her in Alex and Steve Allrich's upcoming Blind Date, college comedy DisOrientation, as the evil 'Bombshell,' in Puppet Master X, Way Down in Chinatown, Sweet Illusions, which premiered at 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and Miramax's 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's currently helping raise money for the St. Louis Library ForWord Fund Literacy Foundation in response to the Ferguson riots, with her father and friend Beau Willimon (House of Cards).Her sister, Lisa Sanditz, is a successful painter. Show less «