BIO
STEPHEN NOLLY is a bi-racial, 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).
Stephen is a Finalist for the Paramount Writers Mentorship and the Warner Brothers Writers’ Workshop Finalist. He 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 Film Pipeline, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, Respectability Entertainment Lab, and Circle of Confusion Discovery Fellowship Finalists.
Stephen enjoys high-concept, socially conscious stories, is an amateur locksmith, dabbles in horology (watchmaking), writing musical theater, was a competitive ballroom dancer, and a member of Mensa.