Stacy Dymalski

Stacy Dymalski is a comedian, author, filmmaker, and award-winning speaker with a career spanning stand-up comedy, screenwriting, and publishing. Dymalski began her professional storytelling career as a stand-up comic at age 19 in San Francisco. After earning a degree in applied mathematics from UC Berkeley, she worked as an aerospace engineer, technical trainer, and sales support engineer for companies including McDonnell Douglas, Computer Associates, Arthur Andersen, IBM, and Adobe. During the day, she developed her corporate speaking skills, while at night she performed at venues such as The Comedy Store, The Improv, and The Ice House. She later completed the UCLA post-graduate screenwriting certificate program, focusing on story structure.

Dymalski is known as the author of the humor book "Confessions of a Band Geek Mom," which explores her experiences balancing a comedy career with raising two musically inclined sons. She also wrote "The Memoir Midwife: Nine Steps to Self-Publish Your Book," a guide to self-publishing that is used as a textbook in college courses on independent publishing. Dymalski teaches story development and self-publishing at Pasadena City College and has taught at Glendale Community College and the University of Utah. Her humor title, "Do We Have to Buy Gifts For Everybody?" reached the top of Amazon’s new releases in its category.

In film, Dymalski has served as writer, director, and producer on several award-winning projects, including the feature "Jupiter Landing" (co-written with Zack Van Eyck), "Hold Please" (writer/producer), which was nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, and "The Write Stuff," an official entry in Academy Award qualifying festivals. Dymalski and Van Eyck have written over a dozen screenplays and have received more than 25 screenwriting contest awards.

As a public speaker, Dymalski has won over 10 major Toastmasters speaking competitions, advancing to the semi-finals of the Toastmasters International Speech Contest. She delivered a TED Talk titled "Prison: A Startling Path to Creativity," detailing her mentorship of author David C. Taylor in writing "Jacumba Connection" while he was incarcerated. Dymalski expanded her TED Talk into the one-woman show "The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon," which won a Producer's Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She premiered her one-hour comedy special "A Bit Much" at Whitefire Theatre's Solofest, also earning a Producer's Encore Award, and recorded her stand-up special "Unfamous in Hollywood" at the Santa Monica Playhouse.

Dymalski is an active member of the Writers Guild of America, serving as vice-chair of the Career Longevity Committee, which addresses ageism in Hollywood and the media. She is also involved with the Committee of Women Writers, the Alliance of Women Directors, and the Female Playwrights Initiative. Known as The Memoir Midwife, Dymalski assists individuals from film executives to retirees in developing and sharing their stories through books and films, focusing on creativity, storytelling, and authentic narrative.