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 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.  And later adapted the novel to screenplay and is currently 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 Supporting Actress, 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.

In late 2025, Anastasia began a songwriting journey by transforming a long-imagined short story about a renegade elf in Santa’s workshop into a 12-song Christmas concept album, A New Christmas, featuring song, Elvie Zazzle and the Broken Toys,  under the artist name Midnight Outlaw.

In early 2026, she expanded the project into a companion body of work centered around Shane Summers, a romantic outlaw and musician, conceived as an original four-part concept album series, titled The Misfit Bar Saga. A second character, Faun, was introduced as both romantic interest and emotional counterpart.

Blending gothic romance, cinematic storytelling, and Americana influences, the songs are set in a mythic Northern factory town where love, rebellion, and fate collide. Through ongoing single releases, original artwork, and music videos, Anastasia is building a living musical universe of more than 50 original songs that exists alongside the larger creative mythology of her written work.

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