Stephany Folsom is a screenwriter best known for her work on Toy Story 4 and Paper Girls.
Folsom was raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. There, she developed an interest in filmmaking. She told her high school counselor that she wanted to enroll in film school, but was advised instead to study radio. After graduating from high school, Folsom moved to Los Angeles, California and enrolled in film school at Loyola Marymount University. After graduating from Loyola, Folsom worked as a film development intern providing script coverage and notes.
She left the position to focus on her personal writing, but soon left Los Angeles to assist a friend in filming a documentary short to support an AIDS clinic in India. Complications arose, in which Folsom later explained, "The clinic was never going to be built. It was near the Golden Triangle so there were all kinds of problems with drug trafficking. I didn't know any of this was going on there before I went ... We ended up being in lockdown and under curfew." The project was never completed; nevertheless, Folsom later worked with various foundations to produce documentary shorts about human trafficking and AIDS. Meanwhile, she wrote for the YouTube series Ds2dio 360, while writing feature spec scripts. After a few years, Folsom recalled feeling "completely burnt out on the travel and tough subject matter."

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