Stephanie Dower is a Screen Producer, Writer, Access Coordinator, and is the founder of Dower Productions, a recipient of Screen Queensland’s Business Enterprise Fund. In 2024, Stephanie directed episodes of the Screen Australia supported online series Path to Paris which has received over 250,000 views and saw her travel to the Paris 2024 Paralympics for filming of the series.

Prior to that she produced the AACTA-nominated short film And The Ocean Agreed alongside Luisa Martiri and Writer/Director Tanya Modini and short film Sunshine, a Bus Stop Films and Taste Creative project funded through Screen Queensland’s RIDE Shorts program. In 2024, Stephanie also served as Access Coordinator for feature films Spit and Amazon Studios’ The Bluff, which releases in early 2026. Stephanie also has served as the Access Coordinator for Screen Forever for the last two years, returning for the 2026 iteration.

A strong advocate for disability inclusion on and off screen, Stephanie served as an inaugural member of Screen Queensland’s Equity and Diversity Taskforce, and has served as an appointed advisor to the Screen Producers’ Australia Council. Stephanie is also a founding member of the Disabled Creative Collective, a group formed to deliver the ‘EquiArts’ program with the support of Creative Australia, Screen Australia, and the Office of the Arts, and has featured as co-host of Attitude Foundation’s ‘ReFramed’.