Screenwriter & Storyteller
Stephanie Lechner is a screenwriter and performer from Indiana. She rows, she bakes and she tells stories—activities that when combined suggest she’s secretly training to survive on a reality show where contestants must cross the Atlantic in a bread boat while narrating their own downfall.
Whether writing TV pilots or performing on a Moth stage, her stories focus on finding the humor in life’s many disappointments.
Pilots
The Bag of Dicks (30 min, comedy)
Years after escaping a religious purity cult, a 34-year old woman in arrested development starts a journey of sex and intimacy only to be diagnosed with pelvic floor dysfunction.
Gifted and Talented (60 min, drama)
On a search for answers about her husband’s death, a headstrong former child-genius unwittingly discovers the gifted and talented program she was in as a child was actually a covert government experiment.
The Moth, Los Angeles | June 2022
Performances
I pack my emotional baggage on a solo trip to Europe and find unlikely friendship with a Belgian cycling team.7 Deadly Sins, Portland | April 2017
Mantras. Muggings. David Lynch. The Moth, Portland | September 2016
They told me Jesus would provide, so I gave them my last two cents......and then I went bankrupt.Mystery Box, Portland | February 2018
The term "late bloomer" doesn't even begin to describe my first kiss.