Stacy Montemayor

Screenwriter

Stacy is an award-winning screenwriter with a background in journalism, technical writing, and historical research. Her screenplays are deeply grounded in nature and tell female-driven stories about people fighting for new, better lives for themselves and their communities. In 2025, she was a semi-finalist for The Writer’s Lab International, a program for women and non-binary screenwriters over 40 that is supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. She was also honored with their Bold Voice Award, which recognizes exceptional originality and courage in storytelling.

Stacy volunteers as the Author Readings Coordinator for the Montana Writers Rodeo conference, and she’s currently co-developing a five-week script-to-screen filmmaking initiative to take place in the winter of 2027. When she’s not writing screenplays or volunteering, she researches and gives presentations on Montana’s Black history.

Originally from California, Stacy holds a degree in anthropology and has lived all over the American West, including the Bay Area, San Diego, Seattle, and Hawaii. In 2018, she moved to Mexico to spend some time connecting with her cultural roots, and after a couple of years living in Mexico’s bustling cities, she moved to Montana, where she built a very small house on a quarter acre and has a front yard full of wildflowers. In her free time, Stacy clears her head by lifting heavy weights and going on very long hikes on trails that start right outside her front door.

• CORPUS
  Feature
  Drama with elements of horror
  In an isolated community of zealots led by an all-powerful showman, a devout follower discovers the leader’s horrific abuses and embarks on a reckless mission of vengeance at any cost.



• THE BLUE CASTLE
  Feature
  Drama
  Set in the 1920s, a subservient woman who's been stifled by her strict mother, receives a medical diagnosis that upends her world. She must decide if she's brave enough to stand on her own and reach for her own happiness. Based on the L.M. Montgomery novel.



• THE SEA CHANGE
  Feature
  Drama/Near-Future Dystopia
  In a future where the climate has collapsed and society has violently unraveled, an order-obsessed and reclusive loner is forced from her home and finds herself responsible for a teen she barely knows. Together, they embark on a perilous journey across a fractured America in search of refuge, family, and the fragile hope of a new beginning.



• FATHOMS
  Short Play
  Drama
  As catastrophic flood waters rapidly approach, a woman must convince her father to evacuate his home and abandon everything he holds dear.



• ANKLE DEEP
  Novel
  An isolated loner hits rock bottom and reaches out to her estranged aunt, embarking on a new life in rural Montana.



• LAUREL & KOA
  Novel
  In order to save a nearly extinct plant, a conservation botanist in Hawaii must gain the trust of a ranching family’s patriarch and son so they will allow her access to their land. She must shed her hardened exterior as she struggles to be open with the family.

• The Writers Lab
  Bold Voice Award
  The Sea Change
  July 2025



• Coverfly
  Ranked #7 feature drama on The Red List
  The Sea Change
  July 2025



• The Writers Lab
  International Writers Lab Semi-finalist
  The Sea Change
  June 2025



• Montana Writers Rodeo Conference
  Staged reading of opening scene
  The Sea Change
  May 2025

• Montana Writers Rodeo Conference
  Authors Reading Coordinator
  Spring 2026



• 52nd Annual Montana History Conference
  Leadership Under Fire: A Black Montanan and the Nez Perce War of 1877
  30-minute presentation
  September 2025



• 49th Annual Montana History Conference
  180 Miles to Wonderland: The Black Soldiers of Fort Harrison and Their 1904 March to Yellowstone
  30-minute presentation
  September 2022



• Lightning Talks
  Black history in Montana
  Various online 10-minute talks
  2021 - 2023

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