Connecting Women in Entertainment and Entrepreneurship.

Hollywood Women Happy Hour launched on Zoom in March 2020 as a way for
industry women to support one another during the pandemic.
Now in person, HWHH hosts quarterly gatherings
to create connection, collaboration, and community.

• Next Event

Hollywood Women Happy Hour
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Wilder WomenThursday, November 5th, 4-6 PM
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• Who We Are

STEPHANIE SANDITZ
Is a writer, director, actress, producer and co-founder of Hollywood Women Happy Hour. She has written and sold films and series to FX, ABC Signature, Lionsgate, Constantin, Endeavor Content, Hulu, AGC and DreamWorks, collaborating with such talents as Rob McElhenney, Mila Kunis, Catherine Hardwicke and Queen Latifah. Her boxing romance PERFECT ADDICTION debuted #1 on Amazon Worldwide and was named one of The New York Times’ “Top 5 Action Movies to Stream," and her civil war biopic MY LAST SKIRT ranked in the top 3.5% of The 2026 Black List and Women's List. Her autobiographical pilot THE HIGH LIFE, won best pilot, directing and acting awards at festivals around the globe. She created, wrote and produced series Chat. Like. Love. for AwesomenessTV and wrote for Hulu’s Love Daily, earning WGA and Emmy nominations. Currently writing psychological thriller THE SHOEMAN for Ross Butler (13 Reasons Why) and Harry Jowsey (UnWell), is the the director and showrunner of the entire first season of new series SWOLE MATE and is set to direct LEGENDS ONLY, winner of Tribeca Film's New Voices in Screenwriting, produced by Happy Accidents (Ginny & Georgia) and Hilary Shor (CHILDREN OF MEN), with Ever Anderson and Melanie Griffith attached to star.Stephanie is an active organizer for Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and co-founded the St. Louis Library Forward Foundation with friends Beau Willimon and Jon Hamm. NYU Tisch Dean’s Honors Drama Scholar. Represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Myman/Greenspan.LISA EBERSOLE
Is a writer, actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur and co-founder of Hollywood Women Happy Hour. Lisa created and stars in the fertility comedy 37 PROBLEMS on Amazon and Elizabeth Banks Whohaha. Current projects include ’90s nostalgia girls’-trip-treasure-hunt comedy, BEACH WEEK, which she is currently packaging; supernatural Rom-Com, GHOST PARENTS; kids animated property, MALIBU BEAR. Lisa got her start in animation as the founding Editor-In-Chief of BrainPOP.com (acquired by Lego) where she was employee #3 and wrote hundreds of animated movies for the K-12 audience. Lisa went on to produce Disney Interactive’s first five iPhone Apps (TOY STORY, CARS, PRINCESSES, BEAUTY & THE BEAST, FAIRIES) that launched in the iPad 1. As a Playwright, Lisa is known for the Off Broadway plays BROTHER (Samuel French) and MOTHER (starring Holland Taylor & Buck Henry.) Lisa holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, where she has taught along with NYU and NYFA.In 2018, Lisa founded a coaching business in to support writers and filmmakers @lisaebersole.net; and in 2025 she founded Rainbow Healing Studio to help individuals reconnect with the “gold” and infinite possibility that exists within all of us. Lisa is a Board Member of the Shawn Regruto Cinematic Foundation and The Paradise Factory Theater in New York City. A Washington D.C. native and longtime New Yorker, Lisa now calls Venice Beach, CA home.