Stefani Robinson

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]

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 was ordered by FX, starring Minnie Driver and Amandla Jahava, with Yana Gorskaya had been tapped to direct.^[22][23] However John Landgraf, the chairman of the FX Networks, revealed in 2024 that they did not picked up to series.^[24]

In June 2025, her another pilot Very Young Frankenstein, based on the 1974 film Young Frankenstein, was nearing a pilot order by FX, with Taika Waititi had been tapped to direct. Mel Brooks who wrote the original film, joined the pilot as an executive producer.^[25] In September 2025, Cary Elwes, Zach Galifianakis, Dolly Wells, Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, Kumail Nanjiani was cast for the pilot.^[26][27] In May 2026, it was announced that the pilot was picked up to series.^[28]