Anastasia Blackwell

Anastasia Blackwell is an accomplished writer, director, producer, actress, and voice-over artist, who  has written and co-produced acclaimed commercial  and promotional campaigns for a major television network affiliate. She is the recipient of awards for outstanding achievement in theater, and has won accolades as a versatile voice-over artist. She received a BS in Sociology and a MA in Theater Arts. Further training includes tutelage from masters of writing and story telling in literature and film.

Anastasia produced, directed, and performed in the cinematic trailer for her debut novel and created music videos based on the dramatic scenes. She collaborated with some of the most talented filmmakers, musicians, and actors in the Bay Area and nationwide.  Another first was the creation of a clothing and accessory line, based on the contemporary gothic/French gypsy style of the book, that had success nearly two years before the novel was published. She has adapted the novel to screenplay and is in the process of negotiating film rights.

In December, 2010, she was honored to be invited to join the ranks of such authors as Stephen King, John Grisham and Nora Roberts and in an auction for a character name in her next project, in a fund raiser for The First Amendment Project. Her novel, medieval historical fantasy, THE CHAMBER OF CURIOSITIES, was published in 2017, with screenplay in development.

Ms. Blackwell was listed as a prominent Gothic writer of the early 21st century, by Andrew Smith, in the Edinburgh Critical Guides, “Gothic Literature”, 2013.

In 2018 Anastasia co-starred in “Disillusioned”, a comedy pilot that won Best Comedy Short in the Nice Film Festival. Inn 2019 she co-starred in”Miriam Graves”, winner of Best Thriller and nominee for Best Film and Audience Favorite in the IFS Los Angeles Film Festival.

Her urban sci-fi fantasy, I AM HUMAN, was published in 2019, along with podcast, and the adapted screenplay was selected as finalist for Best Comedy in the ScreenCraft Screenwriters Competition, 2019.

A thirst for adventure and travel has taken Anastasia on excursions all over the globe. In 2020-2021 she relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico to research and complete American historical coming-of-age novel and screenplay, OUTLAW NIGHT published June 1, 2021.

She is the founder of WAM JAMS! a group founded to give writers, artists and musicians a community to collaborate and create new forms of art. Beautiful Renegade Productions was established in 2020 to develop and promote multi-media platforms for film makers and other performing and visual artists.

Blackwell  is the proud parent of two sons. She grew up in Oregon, spent many years in the SF Bay area, and currently resides Los Angeles, where she works as a professional actress, V/O artist, writer, and producer.

More at www.anastasiablackwell.com, or on Internet Movie Database, IMDB, at http://imdb.to/1aTrLUI