Stacy Cochran

Stacy Cochran

director, screenwriter, producer
George H. Price Productions

Full Bio
Stacy Cochran is a director, producer and screenwriter based in New York. She made her feature debut with Columbia TriStar title My New Gun starring Diane Lane and James LeGros. It was shot on 35mm film by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC. 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, the half-hour doc Richard Lester about the director, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (https://www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-richard-lester), and Drop Back Ten which premiered in Dramatic Competition at Sundance. As the Arthur Levitt Artist-in-Residence at Williams College, she taught screenwriting and directing in Williamstown, MA. She also served as head of the Program Advisory committee at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams. In 2018, she completed Write When You Get Work starring Emily Mortimer, Finn Wittrock, Rachel Keller, Scott Cohen, Jessica Hecht and Andrew Schulz. Shot on Super16mm film by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, ASC, the movie premiered in Narrative Competition at SXSW in March 2018. It was distributed by Abramorama and launched on online platforms in March 2019. Currently, Stacy is working on projects including the screenplay for A Year on Ice, set during the NHL season of 1969 in New York, adapted from veteran New York Times sports-reporter Gerald Eskenazi s book of the same name.

Professional Credits
Write When You Get Work (2018): screenwriter, director, producer
Drop Back Ten (2000): screenwriter, director, producer
Richard Lester (1998): director, producer
Boys (1996): screenwriter, director
My New Gun (1992): screenwriter, director
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