Stephanie Savage (born 1969) is a

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and

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from

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. Savage is best known for developing

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's teen drama series ''

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'' (2007) from the

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, and being an executive producer of the

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series '' The O.C.''. In 2010 Savage and creative partner

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created Fake Empire, a production company producing their TV series, films and music.

Career

Savage graduated from the

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in 1990 with a B.A. in English and Cinema Studies, then from the

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in 1993 with an M.A. in Film History and Theory. While writing her PhD dissertation for the

she moved to Los Angeles, and in 1995 was offered a position at

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's production company

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. Here she dabbled in scriptwriting, handling production rewrites for ''

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'', and met the film's director McG. The two later formed production company

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in 2001. In September 2016, Savage was announced as an executive producer for the then-upcoming ''Dynasty'' reboot series. in 2025 it was announced that Savage would co-executive produce a series based on ''Clueless'' with Schwartz and Jordan Weiss for

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Filmography

Film

Television

The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

Web

The numbers in writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Savage, Stephanie 1969 births 21st-century Canadian screenwriters Canadian soap opera writers Canadian television producers Canadian women television producers Living people University of Toronto alumni University of Iowa alumni Women soap opera writers Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women screenwriters Canadian women television writers Canadian television writers Canadian television show creators