Lane Stanley on Clubhouse

Bio

Filmmaker 🎥 | Playwright 🎭
Debut Feature: ADDICT NAMED HAL
Premiere: Santa Barbara International Film Festival 🏝

Telling character-driven stories from the margins. ✍🏻

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NARRATIVE FEATURES IN DEVELOPMENT

• WHO’S GONNA LOVE YOU!, intergenerational transgender drama in 1990s San Francisco 🌉
• T, narrative shot incrementally over the actor’s first year on Testosterone 💉
• BACHELOR, COLORADO, transgender Western 🤠
• THE OUTSIDE, crime thriller exploring criminal justice reform, sexual violence, & healing 🫂

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DOCUMENTARY & TELEVISION

• Doc about the creation of Jewish ritual to celebrate gender transition ✡️
• HOPELESS DOPE FIEND, tragi-comic recovery house pilot 🏡

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WGA West | Winner, Best Director, Baltimore City Paper | Lambda Literary Fellow 2021 | Produced by 19 theaters in 8 states & Australia, incl a LORT-D theater | Sundance Development Track Second Rounder 2021 & 2022 | Semi-Finalist, O’Neill Theater Conference

Non-Binary Transmasc 🏳️‍⚧️
Queer 🌈
Los Angeles 🏡
Vegan 🌱
5 Years Sober ☀️
Cat Lover 🐈‍⬛

I lived in a halfway house for six months following the sudden death of my fiancé in 2016. Now, I make work about grief, class, trauma, and queerness, and I work with homeless and incarcerated populations. I believe in facing harsh realities through the lens of love and healing. 💗

MFA, Directing, UT Austin 🎬
BA, Philosophy, St. John’s College 📚

Seeking Representation, Collaborators, & Friends ☕️

www.lanemichaelstanley.com
www.addictnamedhal.com