Stephanie Savage

Stephanie Savage (born 1969) is a screenwriter and television producer from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Savage is best known for developing The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl from the novel series, and being an executive producer of the Fox series The O.C.. In 2010 Savage and creative partner Josh Schwartz created Fake Empire, a production company producing their TV series, films and music.

Career Savage graduated from the University of Toronto in 1990 with a B.A. in English and Cinema Studies, then from the University of Iowa in 1993 with an M.A. in Film History and Theory. While writing her PhD dissertation for the University of Iowa she moved to Los Angeles, and in 1995 was offered a position at Drew Barrymore's production company Flower Films. Here she dabbled in scriptwriting, handling production rewrites for Charlie's Angels, and met the film's director McG. The two later formed production company Wonderland Sound and Vision in 2001.

In September 2016, Savage was announced as an executive producer for the then-upcoming Dynasty reboot series.

in 2025 it was announced that Savage would co-executive produce a series based on Clueless with Schwartz and Jordan Weiss for Peacock.

Filmography Film Title Year Credited as Notes Producer Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 2003 Endless Love 2011 Fun Size 2012 No Cameras Allowed 2014 Documentary

Television The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

Title Year Credited as Network Notes Creator Director Writer ExecutiveProducer Fastlane 2002–03 Fox Producer The O.C. 2003–07 (12) Supervising producer (Season 1); Co-executive producer (2005–06: 5 episodes); Executive producer (2006: 3 episodes) The Mountain 2004–05 (2) The WB Gossip Girl 2007–12 (12) The CW Valley Girls 2009 Backdoor pilot: series not picked up; Proposed spin-off to Gossip Girl Ghost Angeles 2011 NBC Unaired television pilot Georgetown 2011 ABC Unaired television pilot Hart of Dixie 2011–15 The CW The Carrie Diaries 2013–14 Cult 2013 The Astronaut Wives Club 2015 (2) ABC Broad Squad 2015 ABC Unaired television pilot Dynasty 2017–22 (1) The CW Runaways 2017–19 (3) Hulu Nancy Drew 2019–2023 (1) The CW Looking for Alaska 2019 (2) Hulu Miniseries Gossip Girl 2021 HBO Max Sterling Point TBA Amazon Prime Video Post-production

Web The numbers in writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

Title Year Credited as Notes Writer ExecutiveProducer Charlie's Angels: Animated Adventures 2003 (6) Gossip Girl: Chasing Dorota 2009