Raised in Montreal, Stephanie Morgenstern’s award-winning career spans multiple disciplines. She began in her teens as a bilingual stage, film, and television actor, later branching into filmmaking, screenwriting, directing and TV showrunning.
She is perhaps best known for the landmark police series Flashpoint (CBS/CTV), co-created with her partner Mark Ellis. It earned the Academy Board of Directors Tribute for Outstanding and Enduring Contribution to Canadian Television, and jointly earned them the Writers’ Guild of Canada’s award for Showrunner of the Year. The two have just finished showrunning Season One of the new police drama Allegiance, set to premiere this February on CBC (distributed by NBCUniversal). Prior to that, they were Executive Producers on the hit medical drama Transplant (CTV/NBC), co-writing the Season Two premiere, as well as creators and showrunners of WW2 spy drama X Company.
Shooting X Company on location in Dieppe, France, with director Jamie Stone.
As an actor, Morgenstern and the rest of the cast of Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter were awarded Best Ensemble Acting by the National Board of Review in New York City. She was also widely seen in Denis Villeneuve’s French-language breakthrough film Maelstrom, and is known to many fans as the voice of Sailor Venus in the cult anime series Sailor Moon.
As a filmmaker, both her short films (Curtains and Remembrance) earned Genie Award nominations, TIFF premieres and international film festival tours. Remembrance earned the Prix Iris (Jutra) Award in Montreal and and Best Canadian Short at the Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival.
Now, as Morgenstern and Ellis are developing their next project, she channels her multi-hyphenate experience from over 30 years in the Canadian film and TV industry into her work as a director of episodic television.
Morgenstern is an alumna of the Women in the Director’s Chair Master Class, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. She holds a BA in English/German from McGill University and a Masters in Social and Political Thought from York University.
When she has free time, Morgenstern enjoys advancing her practice of classical piano and the fighting techniques of Krav Maga.