Stefani Robinson is an American screenwriter and producer. She is best known for her work on FX's ''

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'', for which she won two

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s, and was nominated for a

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for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. Robinson was a writer and executive producer for the FX television series ''What We Do in The Shadows'', for which she received Emmy nominations for writing, and for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020 and 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the 2023 biopic ''

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''.

Early life and education

Robinson moved to the

suburb of

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from

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when she was 8 years old. She watched the series ''

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'' on

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as a high school student and described it as helping her develop her own writing style. She names ''

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'', ''

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'', and

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’s ''

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'' as other major influences. At some point, at age 15 or 16, she began taking classes and performed sketch comedy for audiences as part of an ensemble at The Second City Training Center in Hollywood. Robinson studied screenwriting as an undergraduate at

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Career

Robinson started her career as an assistant at a talent agency. After submitting a script to the television network FX, she was hired to write for ''

'', where she was the only woman and the youngest person in the writer's room. She has received praise for her writing and has criticized the idea that she should simply offer a “female” perspective to her work as opposed to one of an individual that’s not directly tied to gender or race. Robinson was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for the episode " Barbershop". Robinson signed a production deal with FX in 2017. She has written for several of the network's programs, including '' Man Seeking Woman'' and '' Fargo''. Robinson was a co-executive producer and writer for ''

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'' until she left the show in 2020. During her tenure she received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the episodes " On the Run" and " The Wellness Center". Her debut feature film ''

'', a

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about the musician of the same name, was released in 2022. It was directed by Stephen Williams and starred Kelvin Harrison Jr. As of 2023 her pilot for a remake of the British comedy series ''

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'' was in production at FX.

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

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