Stephen Schuyler grew up in Baltimore City. He has worked in production and post-production at all budgetary levels across 8 different countries and more than a dozen US states. He is the winner of the Short Script category of the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. He is a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund fellow through Johns Hopkins and was awarded a production grant as part of his fellowship. He won the first-place feature category and both first and third place short screenplay categories of the 2020 Baltimore Screenwriting Competition. He received his BFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College, where he won the Goodman Short Story award and completed his MFA in Fiction at the University of Maryland, where he was the recipient of a Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. His work has been anthologized in the collection Short Film Screenwriting by Austin Bunn. His short films have received grants from the Maryland States Art Council, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, HFPA, Panavision, and the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, among others. His films have screened at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Austin Film Festival, and Sarasota Film Festival as well as other festivals and venues. He is currently in post-production on his feature film, “Stealing Cars.”