Stephanie is an award-winning, BAFTA long-listed filmmaker passionate about creating gripping stories with universal themes that captivate and entertain audiences. Her credits include directing a block of four episodes for ITV's world-renowned continuing drama EMMERDALE, and a block of four episodes for the BBC's BAFTA and RTS award-winning children's drama series THE DUMPING GROUND.
In 2026, she served on the jury for the BAFTA Children's TV Craft Award and has just completed directing and producing short film Amusement, commissioned by Screen South, which features Steve Meo and Hayley-Marie Axe.
ZEBRA GIRL is her feature directorial debut which she also co-produced and developed the screen story for from the critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival one woman show ‘Catherine & Anita’ performed by Sarah Roy. Starring Tom Cullen (The Gold, Knightfall, Weekend), Jade Anouka (Dune: Prophecy, His Dark Materials) and Roy, it was released in UK Cinemas in 2021 and is now streaming globally on all major platforms. The film won several awards including Midnight Movie at Portland Film Festival and was nominated for Best Thriller at the 2022 National Film Awards.
She is the Creator, Director and EP of comedy horror HOUSE HACK, an interactive, live-action, mobile-first feature film with 16 possible endings that was commissioned by Whatifi, the social story-hacking mobile platform for original interactive films. House Hack was commissioned and produced under her banner Forge Films, which she founded in 2017. Written by Abigail Blackmore, it stars Amar Chadha-Patel (Disney's Willow, The Creator), Jenny Funnell (Polite Society, As Time Goes By) and Amanda Shodeko. House Hack launched on the Whatifi platform in 2021 to great success and was voted a 2021 Top Game App by Google Play.
Stephanie is currently in development on her feature film IN OUR BLOOD, a modern gothic supernatural thriller for which she was awarded Creative England/BFI Emerging Talent Development Funds. The film was chosen for the Birds Eye View/BFI FILMONOMICS programme headed by Mia Bays and was selected for the EIFF Talent Lab, the Galway Film Market and received the prestigious John Brabourne Award to support script completion.
Her shorts have achieved festival, critical, online and broadcast success screening at OSCAR, BAFTA and BIFA qualifying festivals worldwide. She received the PIA PRESSURE NEW VOICES Award for her film BEING KEEGAN starring Emmy and Goldone Globe winner Stephen Graham (Adolescence, A Thousand Blows, Peaky Blinders). The film was championed and supported by OSCAR winning post-production teams at Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post, Company 3 and Goldcrest and went on to win multiple awards. The film is now streaming globally on Amazon and was broadcast on Channel 5's My5, as well as Kino Polska TV in Poland. MARIGOLDS was acquired and broadcast on BBC HD Shorts and won Best Director at Underwire Film Festival. Her second short film DAWN, starring Edward Hogg and Keeley Forsyth was BAFTA long-listed. Both films are now streaming on Wilde TV and Discover Films.
She was selected for the BAFTA CREW Talent Development Programme for directors and mentored for the BAFTA/BFI Film Academy Alumni Programme and RADA. Stephanie has several film projects in development and is a member of BAFTA and Directors UK. She holds dual UK/US citizenship.
