Christy Smith-Sloman is a New Orleans-bred, New York City-based Filmmaker, Playwright and Journalist. She is the recipient of a 2025 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for screenwriting.
Her short film “The Communicator” is currently in Post Production. The Political Satire tells the story of an online entrepreneur who brings her beloved rescue dog to a celebrity pet communicator and discovers disturbing details.
Her screenplay To Be Young, Gifted & Black: The Lorraine Hansberry Story was awarded the second place prize in the 2024 Shore Scripts Development Fund contest. It tells the story of the barrier-breaking playwright who made Broadway history in 1959 when she became the first African-American woman to have a play (A Raisin In The Sun) produced on Broadway.
Her stage plays have been produced at Theater For The New City, T. Schreiber Studios, The Puerto-Rican Traveling Theater, The Harlem YMCA Little Theater and The Cell Theater.
Other works include "City Hall" an original vignette performed at the El Portal Theater in Los Angeles as part of the ABC Entertainment Talent Showcase and "Heartburn" a teleplay that was chosen as a finalist for the ABC Entertainment/Walt Disney Studios television writing fellowship program.
Her journalism has appeared in Marie Claire, Essence, Cosmopolitan, Tablet, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Post, The New York Daily News and Today.com.
Additional accolades include a New York State Council on the Arts grant for dramatic writing and a Creatives Rebuild New York grant for dramatic writing.