Stephanie Storey

Stephanie Storey is an American actress, producer, screenwriter, director, editor, cinematographer, and novelist. She is the author of Oil and Marble, which was followed by Raphael, Painter in Rome. She is perhaps best known for producing the television series, The Writers' Room.

She attended Lakeside High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas and graduated in 1993.

Stephanie Storey achieved cum laude and received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt, she did a semester abroad at Universita di Pisa, studying art and Italian. Storey then went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She attended a Ph.D. program in Art History at Washington University in St. Louis. She has taken classes in screenwriting, fiction, and literature at UCLA Extension. She has been an acting student at Actors Workout Studio, Actors Creative Workshop, and the Elephant Theater.

She has lived in Arkansas, Nashville, Tennessee, Boston, Massachusetts, and St. Louis, Missouri.

Career For over 15 years, Stephanie Storey has produced over one thousand episodes of national television for networks such as, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, Comedy Central, Oxygen, Sundance, E!, MSNBC. The shows she has written have won NAACP Awards and she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She has produced feature films, award-winning documentaries, and new media projects written by Emmy winners and starring talent from series and networks such as The Daily Show, MTV, and Comedy Central.

She is best known as the producer of the first season of The Writers’ Room, with Jim Rash for Sundance, which was nominated for an Emmy for the Breaking Bad episode.

Personal life Stephanie Storey is married to Mike Gandolfi, an actor, writer, producer, stand-up comic, and editor. They were married on Leap Day at Disneyland on February 29, 2004. They were engaged at the Dromoland Castle in County Clare, Ireland. They now reside in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

When publishing her first novel, Storey considered using the pen name "S.G. Storey", partly as a nod to her husband's last name and partly as a way to mask that she was a woman.

She has a niece named Hannah, a goddaughter named Summer, and cousins named Annaleigh, Addie, and Katie.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Year Ceremony Category Series Result 2013 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Informational Series The Writers' Room 2011 Philadelphia Film Festival Official Selection Broke* 2011 Nashville Film Festival Special Jerry Prize Broke* 2011 CMJ Film Festival Official Selection Broke* 2008 NAACP Award Image Award Outstanding Talk – (Series) The Tavis Smiley Show 2007 NAACP Award Image Award Outstanding News, Talk or Information – (Series or Special) The Tavis Smiley Show 2006 NAACP Award Image Award Outstanding TV News, Talk or Information (Series) The Tavis Smiley Show 2005 NAACP Award Image Award Outstanding Television News, Talk or Information (Series or Special) The Tavis Smiley Show