Disability Belongs™ Entertainment Lab 2025
Stephen Nolly
Stephen Nolly is a biracial, Japanese/Jewish Air Force brat who cut his teeth in New York’s theater scene. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he was a resident artist at TriBeCa’s Flea Theater (Drama Desk, OBIE Award). After his start in downtown theater, Stephen found that the film & television world was lacking the diversity of stories that he wanted to tell – and he realized he was the only person suited to tell them.
Stephen is currently a Fellow at Mentorship Matters (Mentor: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, WGAe president,) the RespectAbility/Disability Belongs Entertainment Lab, a Paramount Writers Mentorship and Warner Brothers Writers’ Workshop Finalist, was accepted into Soho House Script House Lab (with Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang), received the CA Individual Artist Fellowship, won the Thriller Genre in the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, and been included on The Naughty List, The Originals Bureau, and the Stunt List. His scripts have advanced at the Austin Film Festival, Sundance Episodic & Feature Labs, Slamdance, PAGE, and most recently been a Finalist for Film Pipeline, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, and the Circle of Confusion Discovery Fellowship.
Stephen enjoys high-concept, socially conscious stories, is an amateur locksmith, dabbles in horology (watchmaking), writing musical theater, was a competitive international ballroom dancer, and a member of Mensa.
