After graduating Middlebury College, Stephanie Fischette moved to New York City and began working in production for commercials, film and tv. She simultaneously pursued acting and appeared in various indie flicks, commercials and pop music videos. Hoping to get closer to her goal directing, she took on a full-time gig at director Bob Giraldi's company as his assistant and soon her position grew to producer/creative. While at Giraldi Media, she rewrote two feature scripts optioned by the company.

Her original short film Honored starring Elisabeth Moss and Charles Borland was completed in 2007 and played in the Cannes Short Film Corner, had its North American premiere at Woodstock Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award in the Action/Cut Competition.

In 2002, Stephanie was asked to co-curate the Children's Program of FilmColumbia, selecting short films from around the world for the independent film festival held in Chatham, NY and continued to handle the program through 2006. In 2005, she was chosen to co-program the children's short film line-up "Put on Your Shorts Kids" for The Hamptons International Film Festival.

In 2007, she starred in the play Erase, a collaboration between playwright Tom Cole and artists Lovett/Codagnone that premiered for PERFORMA 07 at Participant Inc. She also starred in artist John Brattin's short film Triumph of the Night that showed at Participant Inc. and The Wayward Canon in London in 2006, and is collaborating with Brattin again for his latest film The Forgotten One to be completed at the end of 2009.

Stephanie has written for Fimmaker Magazine's blog and print issue and is currently working on her feature script Leaving without Looking. In March 2009, she moved to San Francisco to work as the producer for the media think tank Dial House and produced radio ads for STP voiced by some high profile talent. Currently she’s in Abu Dhabi, working as Filmmaker Coordinator for the Middle East International Film Festival.

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