DALE GRIFFITHS STAMOS is an award-winning playwright, author, and screenwriter, as well as a teacher, story consultant, and editor. She is the recipient of multiple awards and recognitions—including the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Writer’s Digest Stage Play Competition top ten winner (twice), The Jewel Box Theatre Prize, and an Emmy nomination for her story contribution to a CBS after school special. Her full-length and short plays have been produced throughout the country. Her short films have been official selections at a number of festivals, garnering audience and jury awards.  Her feature-length screenplay One White Crow has been an official selection in the screenwriting component of two film festivals, as well as a finalist in the Write Room Screenplay Competition, and semifinalist in the Creative World Awards Screenplay Competition. As an author, her book RenWomen: What Modern Renaissance Women Have to Teach Us About Living Rich, Fulfilling Lives was released in June of 2016. As a teacher, writing consultant, and presenter, she holds a yearly workshop in “Story Structure for All Genres” at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, is a private manuscript consultant/editor, and has spoken about writing to numerous writers' groups.