Stacie Gancayco-Adlao is a Filipino-American writer, director, producer, and actor. Her coming-of-age drama feature, ‘Clementine,’ is the Final Draft Big Break Grand Prize Feature winner. It was chosen out of a record number of 13,000 script submissions. The feature script for 'Clementine' is also an Athena Film Festival Screenwriting Lab Finalist and Austin Film Festival Second Rounder.

Her short dramedy film from her Bluecat Screenplay Semifinalist script, 'Cherry Picking' (which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in) had its World Premiere at the Oscars and BAFTA qualifying L.A. Shorts International Film Festival. Her paranormal mockumentary comedy short, 'Ghosted' (which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in) was nominated for Best Horror Comedy at the Women in Horror Film Festival and Oregon Scream Week Horror Film Festival. Her satirical comedy short, ‘Suzie Wrong,’ (which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in) had its World Premiere at the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

She recently starred in the Amazon Fire and ATTN produced horror comedy, 'Concealer,' directed by Kristine Gerolaga for which Luke Kelly-Clyne of Vulture stated that she gave 'one of the best short performances of the year.' She won Best Actress at the 2020 Horror Origins Film Festival for 'Concealer' and is nominated for Best Supporting Actress by FilmQuest Film Festival.

As a screenwriter, her screenplays have also earned accolades from the following prestigious competitions: Academy Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break, Bluecat, Cinequest, American Zoetrope, Cinematografo Originals, Athena Screenwriting Lab, WeScreenplay, Screencraft, and ISA Network.

She is currently in development on her first feature film, 'Aphrodite & The Apocalypse.’ The script is the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition 3rd Place Winner and is a WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Finalist, Screencraft Comedy Quarterfinalist, and ISA Comedy Quarterfinalist.