
STEPHEN MCNAMEE
Writer. Director. Producer.
ABOUT Me!
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Like Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise before me, I (a non-Tom) starred as George Gibbs in a high school production of Our Town. College happened. Then, I trained through Second City and UCB and subsequently performed suboptimal improv throughout numerous fire code violation-themed theaters in NYC. I wrote, cast, produced, and starred in a sold-out sketch comedy show in New York City, Casual Ambiguity. I also mistakenly graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. Afterward, I wrote and filmed a nearly award-winning comedy-horror short film, Hold The Mayo ("nearly" as in it screened near award-winning films). Apparently, not wanting to travel far to act, I created a 38-episode web series, There Are No Second Takes In Life…Take 2, with each episode filmed on location…in my apartment. I also wrote, directed, and produced, The Powerpuff Girls: The Teen Years.
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My works have screened at such places as the L.A. Comedy Festival, L.A. Webfest, ATL Webfest, East Lansing Film Festival, New Haven International Film Festival, and Hamilton Film Festival.
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I'm a co-founder of I'm Okay Productions. In the Fall of 2024, I directed my first feature film, Muffled (currently in post production). Check out our trailer below!

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Writer. Director. Producer.


Agatha Austen Trailer
Director's reel
The Powerpuff Girls
Directing Reel
Web Series
powerpuff girls

Press
Lansing State Journal: Surviving on cleverness, There Are No Second Takes In Life…Take Two entertains us with a single, stationary camera in an apartment.
TV.com: There Are No Second Takes In Life…Take Two is anything but fearful. Sketch comic and actor Stephen McNamee created and stars as a down-on-his-luck actor who records all the pitfalls and roadblocks of his career right from the safety of his apartment.
Hamilton Film Festival: Will make you rethink mayonnaise!
Lansing State Journal: Festival Best Bet!







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