S T A C Y P Y L E S
Ms. Pyles is a professionally trained Screenwriter and Director whose growing resume reveals her as “one to watch in Hollywood”. Passionate, hardworking and ambitious about her artistic vision, Stacy most recently wrote and directed “KUJO, MY LOVE”, a romantic comedy film about a ‘one night stand’ that unearths the obvious. Currently, Ms. Pyles is in pre-production to direct an original supernatural comedy called, “HAZARDOUS KISMET”.
An Inglewood, California native, Stacy did a page-1 re-write of the dramatic narrative screenplay “GAME” and it was chosen for the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, All Access Competition. Her original romantic comedy screenplay “SUNSET COVE” captured a top honor at the 2005 Los Angeles African-American Film Marketplace.
An alumna of coveted writing fellowships, Ms. Pyles held concurrent seats in the Warner Bros. 2003 Television Comedy Writing Workshop, and Dr. Bill Cosby’s 2003 Screenwriting and Teleplay Writing Program. As a result, Stacy’s MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE teleplay spec “Operation: Get the Account” was showcased in the highly praised ‘Bill Cosby Night of Staged Readings’ directed by Actor/Director Bill Duke, and held at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Ms. Pyles obtained a M.F.A. in Film from California College of the Arts (San Francisco, California) where she made the award-winning film “COMBING THRU THE KINKS”, a comedic look at African-American women and their hair dramas and dilemmas. In Spring 2007 this film will be showcased at the prestigious 18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica, CA) in a three month group exhibition about race, culture and identity.
“COMBING THRU THE KINKS” first premiered at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in the exhibition, “Two Artists: Stacy Pyles and Lava Thomas”. The film went on to garner national acclaim, press recognition and medals at numerous film festivals across the country. Currently it is being used in education curriculum within The University of California campuses, and the California State University systems, in the African-American Studies, Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments. The film is also licensed to the Oakland, California Public Library.
Stacy completed her undergraduate coursework at the University of California, at Berkeley in Mass Communications and African American Studies. She is represented by Leroy Bobbitt, of Bobbitt & Roberts, Attorney’s at Law.