Stefani Robinson

Stefani Robinson is an American screenwriter and producer. She is best known for her work on FX's Atlanta, for which she won two Writers Guild of America Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. Robinson was a writer and executive producer for the FX television series What We Do in The Shadows, for which she received Emmy nominations for writing, and for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020 and 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the 2023 biopic Chevalier.^[a]

Stefani Robinson
Robinson at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival
Alma mater	Emerson College
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, producer
Years active	2017–present
Notable work	Chevalier

Early life and education

Robinson moved to the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia from Hong Kong when she was 8 years old.^[8] She watched the series The Mighty Boosh on YouTube as a high school student and described it as helping her develop her own writing style.^[1] She names Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Austin Powers, and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet as other major influences.^[9] At some point, at age 15 or 16, she began taking classes and performed sketch comedy for audiences as part of an ensemble at The Second City Training Center in Hollywood.^[10][11][12] Robinson studied screenwriting as an undergraduate at Emerson College.^[13]

Career

Robinson started her career as an assistant at a talent agency.^[14] After submitting a script to the television network FX, she was hired to write for Atlanta, where she was the only woman and the youngest person in the writer's room.^[15][16] She has received praise for her writing and has criticized the idea that she should simply offer a “female” perspective to her work as opposed to one of an individual that’s not directly tied to gender or race.^[17] Robinson was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for the episode "Barbershop".^[18]

Robinson signed a production deal with FX in 2017.^[19] She has written for several of the network's programs, including Man Seeking Woman and Fargo.^[20] Robinson was a co-executive producer and writer for What We Do in the Shadows until she left the show in 2020.^[9][15][13] During her tenure she received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the episodes "On the Run" and "The Wellness Center".^[18]

Her debut feature film Chevalier, a biopic about the musician of the same name, was released in 2022.^[13] It was directed by Stephen Williams and starred Kelvin Harrison Jr.^[21]

As of 2023 her pilot for a remake of the British comedy series Peep Show is in production at FX.^[22]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Writers Guild of America Award	Comedy Series	Atlanta	Won	[23]
		New Series		Won	[23]
2018	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (for "Barbershop")		Nominated	[24]
2019	Writers Guild of America Award	Comedy Series		Nominated	[25]
2020	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (for "On the Run")	What We Do in the Shadows	Nominated	[24]
		Outstanding Comedy Series		Nominated	[24]
	Writers Guild of America Award	New Series		Nominated	[26]
2021	Writers Guild of America Award	Comedy Series		Nominated	[27]
2022	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (for "The Wellness Center")		Nominated	[28]
		Outstanding Comedy Series		Nominated	[28]

Notes

1. Attributed to multiple sources.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}