SJ Hodges began her writing career as a playwright, completing her M.F.A. in dramatic writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She’s received a MacDowell residency, a Jerome Fellowship, an NEA grant, a MN State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant, a WV State Arts Grant and The Pilgrim Project Grant and was a Fulbright nominee as well as a CTG Sherwood finalist.
She won the 2008 LA Weekly Annual Theatre Award for Playwriting for How Cissy Grew. The play that launched her career, Old Woman Flying, debuted at The O’Neill, won the Norfolk Southern Foundation New Play Contest and went on to production at Mill Mountain Theatre. She’s received three commissions for TYA plays, all of which have moved from production to publication with One Girl Drummer debuting in New York at City Lights Theatre. Her play TAR was a finalist for the MTC/Sloan Commission, the JAW Festival and received readings at ACT and MTC.
Her TV career began as a staff writer on NBC's "The Player" created by John Rogers starring Wesley Snipes. She then became executive producer/creator of "Guidance" Season Two & Three for Awesomeness/Verizon/Hulu. In 2013, she was named the sole female winner of the Humanitas New Voices in TV Award and she is currently developing a pilot for CBS TV Studios.
SJ Hodges
Studios
Mansfield
SJ Hodges worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…