About

Parade Stone is a biracial New York City-based writer for stage and screen. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in May 2023. She has taught Dramatic Writing at New York University since earning her MFA. She writes coming-of-age stories with a focus on biracial identity, anxiety, and a healthy dose of generational trauma. And there's usually some ghosts too. 

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Parade comes from a long legacy of Black artists and writers, including prolific journalist Chuck Stone and librettist and screenwriter Thulani Davis. ​She is honored to continue the family tradition of sharing stories as a means of activism and an act of building community resilience.

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Parade completed the Travis Bogard Artist in Residence Fellowship created by the Eugene O'Neill Foundation, where she wrote the play "An Explanation for Birds" in July 2024. She presented the same play as a 29-Hour Reading in June 2025.  Her thesis play, “An Invitation to Anna’s Wedding,” was presented in a 29-Hour reading at the Goldberg Theatre in June 2023. Her musical, “Work,” was presented in a 29-Hour Reading at Open Jar Studios in 2022 and supported by the Shubert Organization. She performed a selection of songs from the same show at the New York Theatre Barn’s New Work Series in 2022. In 2023, she completed a developmental residency for "Work" at The O’Neill.

 

"An Invitation to Anna's Wedding" earned her a Semi-Finalist award for the 2024 Premiere Play Festival and a Finalist award for the 2024 Parity Commission. In 2022, she was named a Finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Prize, presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in July.  You can find an excerpt from her play, “In the Same Space," published in The Cincinnati Review.

 

Currently, Parade is in pre-production for her short film, "Fishing," which will be her directorial debut in film. Her short film, "Spiritual Shit" is in distribution. She has a portfolio full of film and TV scripts, including her feature rom-com, "Meet Me On The Brooklyn Bridge," which earned her the 2023 Graduate Screenwriting Award at the NYU Fusion Festival, celebrating women writers and filmmakers. The same script was placed in the 2024 Cinematography & Photography Awards. Her pilot, "English Teacher," was named Quarterfinalist in the 2023 Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Semi-Finalist for the Athena Film Festival, and Finalist for the 2024 Fusion Festival Graduate Pilot Award.

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Currently, she is continuing to develop her musical, "Work," with composer Jordyn Davis, and a new musical, "Another New World" with composer Mason McDowell. She is also in the process of developing her pilot, "Medium." Find her work on The Black List, FilmFreeway, and Coverfly