Stacie Passon

Stacie Lyne Passon (born October 1, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter, whose debut film Concussion premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and subsequently won a Teddy Award Jury Prize as an outstanding film about LGBT themes at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.

Passon was born in Detroit, Michigan, the second of two daughters born to Steven and Michelle Passon. She is Jewish.

She is married to marketing executive Alyson Shapero, with whom she shares two children: Micah (born 2002) and Maren Shapero (born 2005). Passon and her family reside in Montclair, New Jersey.

Passon previously worked as a commercial director and producer. In 2012, Passon received the Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant and the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers Live the Dream Grant at the Gotham Awards for Concussion. The film garnered two Gotham Awards nominations for Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor, a Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Film, and won a 2014 GLAAD Media Award. She is currently directing her second feature film, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, based on the Shirley Jackson novel, from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mark Kruger. Passon has directed two episodes of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning comedy series Transparent.

Passon is developing the feature film Strange Things Started Happening, which is supported by Sundance Institute and Tribeca Film Institute. She teaches screenwriting at New York University's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.

• Concussion (2013)
• Transparent (2015–2016, 2 episodes)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2017)