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One is a showrunner, the other an actor who became a writer. Together, Philip Levens and Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens have been a writing team since 2019.
Two careers
Writer · Producer · Showrunner
Philip learned the craft in network writers’ rooms and the business of it in the showrunner’s chair. He created and ran Ascension for Syfy and has sold more than twenty pilots, so he knows how a concept has to be built to survive development.
Actor · Writer · Producer
Carolyn approaches a script from inside the scene. After years in film and television, from Love & Mercy to Castle, she began writing and selling her own pilots. She brings character and performance instincts to the partnership.
On the record
Philip Levens and Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens married on July 27, 2019, and their working partnership grew from there. The Napa Valley wedding.
Todd Garner’s Broken Road Productions brought the couple on to write the television project together, their first widely reported joint credit. How they write together.
During the festival they recorded a joint episode of The Unstuck Creative about finding the fire in a project, carrying ideas to completion as a team, and moving on when a project stalls.
Fox Business profiled the pair as they settled on Florida’s Gulf Coast after more than two decades in California. A home in Naples.
Articles
Profile · November 12, 2026
Television writer Philip Levens and his wife, actor-writer Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens, have built a marriage and a creative partnership, from Los Angeles to Naples, Florida.
Read →Partnership · November 12, 2026
At the Austin Film Festival and on Menace of Venice, Philip Levens and his wife Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens have shown what a writing partnership looks like in practice.
Read →Naples · November 12, 2026
After more than twenty years in Los Angeles, writer-producer Philip Levens and his wife, actor-writer Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens, found a new home on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Read →Wedding · November 12, 2026
On July 27, 2019, Philip Levens and his wife Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens married at Saint Helena Catholic Church and celebrated at Harvest Inn in Napa Valley.
Read →Teaching · November 12, 2026
Actor, writer, and coach Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens, the wife of television writer Philip Levens, brings her film and television career to her students while the two continue to write together.
Read →Follow the work
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