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11 Facts About Stephany Folsom

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Stephany Folsom is a screenwriter best known for her work on Toy Story 4 and Paper Girls.

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Stephany Folsom told her high school counselor that she wanted to enroll in film school, but was advised instead to study radio.

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Stephany Folsom left the position to focus on her personal writing, but soon left Los Angeles to assist a friend in filming a documentary short to support an AIDS clinic in India.

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Back in the United States, Stephany Folsom attended a NASA Social event and later toured a Stanley Kubrick exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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In May 2015, Stephany Folsom was hired to write The Princess of North Sudan for Walt Disney Pictures.

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In December 2015, Stephany Folsom was hired to polish the script for Thor: Ragnarok.

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Stephany Folsom was the first female writer to work on the series.

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In January 2018, Stephany Folsom was hired to write a new screenplay for Toy Story 4 with Andrew Stanton.

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In November 2018, it was announced that Stephany Folsom would write the screenplay for This is Jane, a film adaptation of The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan.

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In July 2019, Folsom was hired as the head writer and executive producer for the television adaptation of Brian K Vaughan's comic book series, Paper Girls produced by Amazon Studios.

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That same month, Stephany Folsom was hired as a consulting producer on Amazon Studios' The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, for which she served as an episode writer.