Stacy Arnold-Strider

Board Member

​Stacy caught the theater bug as a child, spending summers in La Veta watching her impressive aunt Peggy (Arnold) direct melodramas for Fort Francisco Days. Captured by the art and madness of the craft, Stacy performed in several plays, musicals, and olios during her school-age years, while also performing in multiple school and community orchestras as a cellist. Stacy then studied Film Theory at San Francisco State University, and went on to spend the next decade working for various productions, filmmakers, and film companies including American Zoetrope, Lucasfilm Ltd., The Walt Disney Company, and Sony Pictures. As a screenwriter, Stacy has won several honors and awards in competition, and wrote and directed a horror film short that aired on the Sci-Fi channel as one of four Halloween shorts along with Tim Burton’s Vincent. Her career in film eventually lead to a second career in entertainment licensing, developing everything from T-shirts to toys and lunchboxes for Lucasfilm Ltd., SEGA of America, and The Pokémon Company, International. Last year, Stacy succumbed to the lure of the Spanish Peaks, and settled here permanently with her husband and three fur babies.