Stephany Folsom is a screenwriter best known for her work on Toy Story 4 and .
Career
Before turning to screenwriting, Folsom produced short-form documentaries. In 2013, Folsom's unproduced screenplay 1969: A Space Odyssey, or How Kubrick Learned to Stop Worrying and Land on the Moon was number 56 on the 2013 Hit List, Launchpad's list of the best spec scripts of the year, and was listen on the 2013 Black List. 1969: A Space Odyssey was given a staged reading at the first Black List Live! event as part of the LA Film Festival in the following year. The reading featured Jared Harris as Stanley Kubrick and Kathryn Hahn as a NASA employee. Folsom began writing 1969:A Space Odyssey in January 2013. The story is based off the conspiracy theory that Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing footage. Disney hired Folsom to write The Princess of North Sudan in 2015. The film was based on the story of Jeremiah Heaton, a man who claimed a piece of land between Egypt and Sudan to make his daughter a princess. The film has yet to be released. Folsom wrote two episodes for season one, "The High Tower" and "Secrets and Holograms" of the television seriesStar Wars: Resistance. Folsom was the first female writer to work on the series. In 2018 it was announced that Folsom would write the screenplay for This is Jane, a film adaptation of The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan. The film is set to star Michelle Williams. Folsom co-wrote the screenplay for Toy Story 4 with Andrew Stanton. The screenplay was a finalist for the 45th annual Humanitas Prize in the Family Feature Film Category. Folsom has a 'story by' credit on Marvel's . Due to regulations, she was denied a writer credit on the film by the Writer's Guild of America. The Chicago Tribune credits Folsom for polishing the script. Folsom is a consulting producer on Amazon's Lord of the Rings television series, for which she also wrote the first two episodes. In 2019 it was announced that Folsom will be adapting Brian K. Vaughn's comic book series, Paper Girls, for television.
