Stacy Davies
Stacy began her career as a coverage writer for Jodie Foster’s Egg Pictures and The Sundance Institute, writing synopses and recommendations on over 100 scripts. Since that time, she has been an editor, features writer, and theatre and art critic for the OC Weekly, Pasadena Weekly, New Times Phoenix, District Weekly, OC Register, OC Home Magazine, Juxtapoz, Bust Magazine, Culture Magazine and ARTslant.com.
In 2006, Stacy was the founding editor of the Inland Empire Weekly, also known as the IE Weekly. She is currently the Arts & Culture Editor for this paper. In 2008, she was awarded the "Excellence in Journalism" prize from the Society of Professional Journalists for her art review, "Embrace Your Sexy Menstrual Cycle!" for the IE Weekly.
Stacy previously served as Head of Production for Safari Press Publishing, and in 2007, was a Coordinating Producer in the development department at E! True Hollywood Story. Early in her career, Stacy was the executive assistant to Oscar/Grammy/Emmy-award winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman at ASCAP.
Over the last ten years, Stacy has also been an on-air radio personality - at KKJZ, Long Beach’s jazz station, and at independent public stations KUCI and KSPC. Currently, Stacy's voice can be heard on industrials and training software for Public Storage Inc.
In 2009, Stacy was a judge for the Smogdance International Short Film Festival and is a frequent judge for the California State Thespian Festival and the Fullerton College High School Theatrical Festival. In 2010, Stacy was a judge for Congresswoman Grace F. Napolitano's annual 38th District Congressional Art Competition.
Stacy has been an assistant director on the short films, Career Virgin (AFI), and KRAP-TV and Love is a Battlefield (Life and Death Productions). She has also directed two plays, The Owl and the Pussycat at the Little Fish Theatre in the summer of 2003, and Wen at the Insurgo Theatre Movement that following winter. Stacy was a stage manager for Shakespeare by the Sea’s summer stock from 2000 to 2003, and in 2008 and 2010, she returned to SBTS to stage manage Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, respectively.
Stacy's love of theatre and its transformative possibilities was ignited in 1995 when she served as Director of Dance and Drama for the Rowdy Ridge Gang summer camp at the Scott Newman Center - a nonprofit organization founded by actor Paul Newman that seeks to rebuild the self-esteem of children and their mothers who are survivors of domestic violence and drug abuse. Stacy continues to be involved with the organization to this day, serving as their part-time Grant Writer and Director of Public Relations.
Stacy
is currently a seasonal instructor at the University of California at Riverside, Extension, where she teaches the
nonfiction writing courses, "The Creative & Opinion Essay (including
Literary Nonfiction)" and
"From Traveler to Travel Writer." She is also a lecturer in
their OSHER Life Long Learning program and developed the film studies series Iconic Actresses, featuring the
classes "Iconic Actresses:
the Independents 1970-80" and "Iconic Actresses: Vamps & Vixens of the Pre-Code Era,
1930-34" (taught at both the Riverside and Palm Springs Annenberg campuses).
In the fall of 2010, "Iconic Actresses: Femme Fatales of the Forties" will be
offered.
Stacy is also passionate about political activism and humanitarian causes, and in 2005 made national headlines as the creator of the Barbara Boxer Rose Campaign, a grassroots effort conducted through the Internet that in a mere two weeks amassed 4,500 roses from single $10 donations. The roses were then delivered en masse to the senator on Valentine's Day to acknowledge her unwavering attempts to bring the myriad deceptions of the Bush Administration to public light during the Condoleezza Rice confirmation hearings for Secretary of State.
Stacy holds a bachelor's degree in English/Creative Writing from California State University at Long Beach and a master's degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California.