Stefani Robinson

Stefani Robinson is an American screenwriter and producer. She is best known for her work on FX's Atlanta, for which she won two Writers Guild of America Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. Robinson was a writer and executive producer for the FX television series What We Do in The Shadows, for which she received Emmy nominations for writing, and for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020 and 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the 2023 biopic Chevalier.

Early life and education Robinson moved to the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia from Hong Kong when she was 8 years old. She watched the series The Mighty Boosh on YouTube as a high school student and described it as helping her develop her own writing style. Robinson studied screenwriting as an undergraduate at Emerson College.

Career Robinson started her career as an assistant at a talent agency. After submitting a script to the television network FX, she was hired to write for Atlanta, where she was the only woman and the youngest person in the writer's room. She has received praise for her writing and has criticized the idea that she should simply offer a “female” perspective to her work as opposed to one of an individual that’s not directly tied to gender or race. Robinson was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for the episode "Barbershop".

Robinson signed a production deal with FX in 2017. She has written for several of the network's programs, including Man Seeking Woman and Fargo. Robinson was a co-executive producer and writer for What We Do in the Shadows until she left the show in 2020.

As of 2023 her pilot for a remake of the British comedy series Peep Show was ordered by FX, starring Minnie Driver and Amandla Jahava, with Yana Gorskaya had been tapped to direct. However John Landgraf, the chairman of the FX Networks, revealed in 2024 that they did not picked up to series.

In June 2025, her another pilot Very Young Frankenstein, based on the 1974 film Young Frankenstein, was nearing a pilot order by FX, with Taika Waititi had been tapped to direct. Mel Brooks who wrote the original film, joined the pilot as an executive producer. In September 2025, Cary Elwes, Zach Galifianakis, Dolly Wells, Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, Kumail Nanjiani was cast for the pilot. In May 2026, it was announced that the pilot was picked up to series.

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