Stacie E. Hawkins

Stacie E. Hawkins is a writer/director who tells stories about complicated women trying to find their place in the world. Her award-winning feature, The Rise and Fall of Miss Thang, is about a female tap dancer who finds her way back to dance after a family tragedy. 

 

Stacie has an M.F.A. in film production from Chapman University and has most recently studied Directing Actors with Brad Barnes. Her latest two short films, Pressed (a dramedy about a young woman pressured into a make-over) and Ollie and The Scary Story (a family-friendly horror film about a child’s smart speaker gone bad) both played at the 2022 Pan African Film Festival. Ollie and The Scary Story recently screened at the world-renowned Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans.

 

As a writer, her original one-hour fantasy pilot script, Night Watchers, was selected for the 2022 Gotham TV Series Lab and her action/adventure pilot script about Black women pirates in the 1700s, Midnight Marauders, received Honorable Mention for the Stowe Story Labs Diversity Fellowship. She is an active member of Film Fatales and Alliance of Women Directors.