Stephanie Donnelly is a filmmaker from Long Island, NY. She received her BA in Film from Vassar College and her MFA in Filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. The Adventures of Penny Patterson was her thesis film. Her short films have screened at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Cleveland International Film Festival, and San Diego Comic-Con, among others. She is a two-time Sound Rounder in the Austin Film Festival’s Screenplay & Teleplay Competition, and her scripts The Sound of Settling and The Adventures of Penny Patterson were finalists in NYU’s Fusion Film Festival. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California.