During the pandemic, Stephanie developed a second passion for screenplay writing.
"One morning, I was lying in bed checking emails, there was an advertisement for an online-course in screenwriting" she remembers. "I was electrified! I knew I had to give this a try."
The course itself wasn't very good, but it made Stephanie want to go on. A formatting course by a California based firm offered the necessary skills, and Stephanie took it.

Her first project was an adaptation of the novel "The House on the Strand" by Daphne DuMaurier.
"I did it just for fun, I had no professional or financial ambitions at all. I relished the act of pure creativity, without all the strict self-criticism that comes with being a professional pianist."
However, her script "A Drop of Time" turned out too good to remain in a desk drawer.
To get professional feedback, Stephanie enrolled it in several screenwriting competitions.
The results were astonishing: "A Drop of Time" became semi-finalist in the "ReelHeART International Script Competition", and quarter-finalist in the "WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award" as well as the "SWN Screenplay Competition".
However, since the film rights for the novel had already been controlled for more than 50 years, that project came to its end.

Stephanie's next screenplay was to be an original story.  In 2023 she finished "Who Paints the Cats?", a family movie and fantasy adventure drama.

It is currently running in several international competitions, and so far has placed finalist in the "Children Cinema Awards" where it competed with finished films, as well as in the "London International Screenwriting Competition", and semi-finalist in the "17th Annual StoryPros Awards".
"It would be wonderful if someone produced "Who Paints the Cats?", Stephanie says. "It's a movie I'd really love to see, and I think many others worldwide would, too."

Here are some excerpts of the evaluations from the prestigious "Golden Script Competition", "Big Break Screenwriting Contest" (Quarterfinalist) and “London International Screenwriting Competition”.