Stephanie Yuhas

Stephanie Yuhas is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and producer who specializes in comedy. She graduated with honors from the Philadelphia University of Arts with a BFA in Animation. Yuhas is most well known for her work on "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return" and "Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie." Her Amazon Best-Selling book, "American Goulash," was published by BookTrope in November of 2014, won the PNWA Nancy Pearl Award in 2015. The book was based on her life story and short animation, "Nagymama," which was featured on Nicktoons and at over a dozen international film festivals. The project received an Art & Change grant from the Leeway Foundation and then was optioned by Guru Studio. It won Best Development Property at Cartoon Connection in Québec and was sold to an undisclosed network. At the same time, her project "Mars Rover," which she co-created with her writing partner/husband, Matt Conant, was optioned by Big Jump Productions. In 2017, her directorial debut "Vessel," received an Art & Change Award from the Leeway Foundation. The project won several awards and was screened at over a dozen film festivals internationally. She moved to Los Angeles in 2018 to work on her original series, as well as an undisclosed trans-media project with the Executive Producer of "The Chronicles of Narnia." She was then attached as a writer/Executive Producer on an undisclosed TV adaptation of a video game franchise. In 2019, her project "Eldritch Manor," which she created with Rob Walker and Matt Conant, was optioned by Levity Live. The same year, she was awarded a mentorship at Netflix through Women in Animation. In 2020 she won a full scholarship to the Rocaberti Castle Writers' Retreat in France for her first feature, "Princess Wish." She previously lived in Philadelphia, where she wrote and produced award-winning content for Crystalline Studios, Cinevore Studios, Cinemassacre Productions, Mixed Nuts Productions, and Rob Walker Films. She oversaw more than 100 commercial video projects for clients such as eBay, Longwood Gardens, and The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and over 100 narrative fiction projects with companies like Warner Bros Worldwide Home Video and Red 5/Epic Level Studios. She is the co-founder of Project Twenty1, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that runs the 21-Day Filmmaking Competition and Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival, as well as educational apprenticeships, workshops, and career-building programs for emerging media artists.