Biography

Stacy Cochran is a director, producer and screenwriter, born in Passaic New Jersey and based in New York City. She made her feature debut with Columbia TriStar title "My New Gun" starring Diane Lane and James LeGros. It premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. Subsequent projects as writer/director include Touchstone/Interscope title "Boys" starring Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas, the half-hour doc "Richard Lester!" about the director, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and "Drop Back Ten," which premiered in Dramatic Competition at Sundance. While an MFA student at Columbia University, her short film "Another Damaging Day" premiered at the New York Film Festival. After disruptions in her work following September 11 2001, she received an Arthur Levitt Artist-in-Residence at Williams College. During that time, she also served as head of the program advisory committee at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams. In 2018, after this unscheduled directing hiatus, she completed a new feature film, "Write When You Get Work," starring Emily Mortimer, Finn Wittrock, Rachel Keller, Scott Cohen and Jessica Hecht. Shot on Super16mm film by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, the movie premiered in Narrative Competition at SXSW in March 2018. It was distributed by Abramorama and will premiere on global online platforms in February 2019.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ben Lazard