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… with the uncanny ability to make a Disney/Pixar reference in the same sentence as a double entendre.
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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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