Stephanie Allain
Stephanie Allain (born October 30, 1959) is an African-American producer of independent movies in Hollywood, California.
Personal life
Stephanie Allain was born to Dr. Charles Allain, a biochemist, and Gwen Allain Miller, an educator. Although born in New Orleans, her family moved near Los Angeles, California, in 1965. Allain attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduating with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing.
She was married to Mitch Marcus from 1988 to 1999. She is currently married to Tony Award-nominated composer Stephen Bray, who is composer and lyricist of the Broadway version of the Alice Walker book The Color Purple. Allain has three children.
Career
She began her film career in 1985 at Creative Artists Agency, first as a script reader, then as a staff reader. As a story analyst, she worked for 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., and finally in 1989, at Columbia Pictures. There, Allain was one of twelve readers at the studio, and one of only two African-American readers. She rose through the ranks to become Senior Vice President of Production and was influential in encouraging and developing an African-American filmmaking community in Hollywood in the 1990s.