Raven Petretti-Stamper is a playwright and screenwriter whose work blends heart, humor, and emotional chaos. Her full-length plays include 2020: A Fantasy and It’s Still You (published by Next Stage Press), with one-acts produced across the U.S. and internationally. Her short works have appeared in LoveNotes, Smith & Kraus’ Best Women’s Monologues of 2021, Laughter is the Best Medicine, and Tiny Plays from the Quarantine anthologies. Her latest play, Rent-A-Mom, is a Thrown Stone Finalist.
Her short films have screened across the U.S. and abroad, earning multiple festival honors. Her TV pilot Never Let Go placed in Screencraft’s TV and Comedy competitions and received accolades from 8 & Halfilm, Wiki, and the Big Apple Film Festival. She developed her newest TV series, Bridget & the Boy-Bot, at Stowe Story Labs, with early drafts receiving Honorable Mentions from the North Fork TV Festival and Finish Line Script Competition.
Raven is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, a Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive alum, and a Yale Writers’ Workshop fellow. She trained at the School of Early Departures (NYU Tisch and AADA), holds an MFA from the School of Life, and is currently pursuing a PhD in perseverance.
