Christy Smith-Sloman is a New Orleans-bred, New York City-based screenwriter, playwright and journalist.
Her screenplay To Be Young, Gifted & Black: The Lorraine Hansberry Story was awarded the second place prize in the 2024 Shore Scripts Development Fund contest. Her stage plays have been produced at Theater For The New City, T. Schreiber Studios, The Puerto-Rican Traveling Theater, The Harlem YMCA Little Theater and The Cell Theater.
Other works include "City Hall" an original vignette performed at the El Portal Theater in Los Angeles as part of the ABC Entertainment Talent Showcase, "Heartburn" a teleplay that was chosen as a finalist for the ABC Entertainment/Walt Disney Studios television writing fellowship program.
Her journalism has appeared in the New York Post, Daily New, Marie Claire, Essence, Cosmopolitan, The Hollywood Reporter and Today.com.
She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant for dramatic writing and a Creatives Rebuild New York grant for dramatic writing.