MEET your hosts:

STEPHANIE SANDITZ is a writer, director, actress, and producer based in LA via NY. She’s written 14 films for studios and sold TV shows to multiple networks. She recently served as showrunner and director for upcoming series, SWOLE MATE, and is set to direct her feature LEGENDS ONLY, Tribeca Film winner of New Voices in Screenwriting, produced by Happy Accidents (Ginny & Georgia) and Hilary Shor (Children of Men). Stephanie’s boxing romance PERFECT ADDICTION debuted #1 on Amazon Worldwide and named one of The New York Times’ “Top 5 Action Movies to Stream.” She’s sold comedy pilots to FX with Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny) and ABC Signature (High Potential) with Mila Kunis. Her autobiographical pilot THE HIGH LIFE, won awards for writing, directing, and acting in festivals around the globe. Other credits include LOST ANGELES with Carsten Lorenz (Independence Day), HEATHEN for Catherine Hardwicke, MY LAST SKIRT for Patriot Pictures (Lord of War), BEAUTIFUL BASTARD for Lionsgate, a Mortal Instruments’ prequel for Constantin Films (Resident Evil) and DANCE PARTY for AGC Studios (Hit Man) with Queen Latifah. Currently developing her riverboat gambling drama SHOW ME STATES with Happy Accidents and Jamie & Jason Neese (Umbrella Academy, Horizon).

Stephanie co-founded the Hollywood Women’s Happy Hour and is an active organizer for Planned Parenthood, ACLU, and the St. Louis Library Foundation, which she started with Beau Willimon and Jon Hamm. She attended NYU Tisch (Dean's Honors Drama Scholar) and is repped by Brillstein Entertainment, Myman/Greenspan Legal.

LISA EBERSOLE is a writer, actor, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Lisa created and stars in the fertility comedy 37 PROBLEMS on Amazon and Elizabeth Banks Whohaha channel. Current projects include her ’90s nostalgia girls’-trip-treasure-hunt comedy, BEACH WEEK, which she is currently shopping to talent; supernatural Rom-Com, GHOST PARENTS; kids animated property, MALIBU BEAR.

Lisa got her start in animation as the founding Editor-In-Chief of BrainPOP.com (acquired by Lego) where she was employee #3 and wrote hundreds of animated movies for the K-12 audience. Lisa went on to produce Disney Interactive’s first five iPhone Apps (TOY STORY, CARS, PRINCESSES, BEAUTY & THE BEAST, FAIRIES) that launched in the iPad 1.

As a Playwright, Lisa is known for the Off Broadway plays BROTHER (Samuel French) and MOTHER (starring Holland Taylor & Buck Henry.)

Lisa holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, where she has taught along with NYU and NYFA. Lisa is passionate about writers seeing their work realized on stage and screen and founded a coaching business to support that @ lisaebersole.net. She founded Rainbow Healing Studio to help individuals reconnect with their childhood sense of infinite possibility; and co-founded Hollywood Women Happy Hour to forge connections in the entertainment and entrepreneur space.

Lisa is a Board Member of the Shawn Regruto Cinematic Foundation and a member of The Paradise Factory Theater in New York City. A Washington D.C. native and longtime New Yorker, Lisa now calls Venice Beach, CA home.