writer, director, producer.
Tonja Renée Stidhum is a writer-director-producer with cheeks you want to pinch… but don’t (unless she wants you to). She is made of sugar and spice and everything rice. The ‘j in her first name is not silent. It is loud and dramatic.
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The Root: “Malcolm & Marie: Zendaya and John David Washington Discuss the Gray Areas of Love”
The Root: “I May Destroy You: Michaela Coel Has Full Autonomy and it Shows”
The Root: “21 Bridges: Yes, Chadwick Boseman Was Conflicted Portraying a Black Cop”
The Root: “Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, and ‘Dolemite’ Cast Play ‘Black Ass Game’”
The Root: “Having a ‘Little’ Fun: Marsai Martin, Issa Rae and Regina Hall Play a ‘Black Ass Game’”
The Root: “Black Ass Game: Tracee Ellis Ross Wants to Hit The High Note With Rihanna”
The Root: “Need a Creative Spark? The Cast and Crew of Pixar’s Soul Got You, Boo”
The Root: “We Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Larenz Tate”
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Annoyed Not Offended (Podcast Guest) “Reinventing Your Renaissance w/ Tonja”
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Sweetened With Ash Lemonade (Podcast Guest) “Snack Panther ft. Tonja Stidhum”
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Black Women In Media Conference and Awards 2020 (Panelist) – “Is Blogging Dead?”
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CNN (Quotable) – “Beyoncé and Lamar show what it means to be ‘unapologetically black”
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WingChick: a digital series about the habitual homegirl
Now Streaming on OpenTV
Raven is a late twenty-something bougie-mixed-with-a-dash-of-hood Black girl juggling her burgeoning job as a professional dating site profile writer and a professional dating flop. She has mastered the art of intimacy without being intimate: the best friend, the confidant, the wingwoman for dudes.
Raven’s male partner-in-crime is Michael and their relationship is your typical “sexual tension splattered all over their faces, but somehow they don’t own a mirror” situation. When Raven needs some fellow estrogen in her life, she hangs out with her BFFs (The Flock): Greer, Lenora (called “Leo”, for short), and Tess.
Navigating the ins and outs of dating and the tangled web she and Michael have unknowingly weaved leads Raven to a whirlwind of shenanigans and self-discovery.
Tonja Renée Stidhum – Creator/Director/Executive Producer
Bonique’a Matthews – Executive Producer
Alysia Allen – Producer
Mariscela Beatríz Mendez – Director of Photography
Carl Jones – Editor
Bree Mei-Li – Raven
Aubrey Marquez – Michael
Lesette Latimer – Lenora aka “Leo”
Johanna Middleton – Tess
Riannah Pouncy – Greer
Shondriette Kelley – Consulting Producer
Tanya Hayles – Consulting Producer
Lauren Persons – Consulting Producer
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